Sample Documents and Templates
These documents and templates are yours to use as you see fit, just give me credit :-)
The place to begin is probably with a sample student tracking sheet that contains student-friendly learning targets. My students use this to track formative assessment and self-assessment data. The goal is for them to be cognizant of the learning intention and their progression toward mastery of it. When it comes time to prepare for the summative assessment, students have some data to make decisions about what they know and don't know.
The next piece is a test blueprint that shows the number of questions used to assess each learning target. This plan holds the teacher accountable and provides students with a summative assessment that provides relatively accurate information on their understanding of the individual targets.
Once students have taken a summative assessment, we want to see how they did, target by target. Additionally, I want them to reflect and determine whether any wrong answers were due to simple mistakes or not getting it. Students then make a plan of how they will avoid simple mistakes or what to do when they don't get it the next time. This student test analysis sheet (adapted from Seven Strategies of Assessment for Learning by Jan Chappuis) gives students an organized way to accomplish this.
When making the shift from traditional grading to a standards-based grading approach, it is important to maintain strong communications with parents. They are generally unfamiliar with standards-based grading and will need some information to help them. This parent letter goes home with my students at the start of the year and explains the process to parents.
The place to begin is probably with a sample student tracking sheet that contains student-friendly learning targets. My students use this to track formative assessment and self-assessment data. The goal is for them to be cognizant of the learning intention and their progression toward mastery of it. When it comes time to prepare for the summative assessment, students have some data to make decisions about what they know and don't know.
The next piece is a test blueprint that shows the number of questions used to assess each learning target. This plan holds the teacher accountable and provides students with a summative assessment that provides relatively accurate information on their understanding of the individual targets.
Once students have taken a summative assessment, we want to see how they did, target by target. Additionally, I want them to reflect and determine whether any wrong answers were due to simple mistakes or not getting it. Students then make a plan of how they will avoid simple mistakes or what to do when they don't get it the next time. This student test analysis sheet (adapted from Seven Strategies of Assessment for Learning by Jan Chappuis) gives students an organized way to accomplish this.
When making the shift from traditional grading to a standards-based grading approach, it is important to maintain strong communications with parents. They are generally unfamiliar with standards-based grading and will need some information to help them. This parent letter goes home with my students at the start of the year and explains the process to parents.