What is Analysis ,Action, Culture in Assessment

 

Assessment provides information that the teacher and the students need. So, we ask in which way do assessment help? Analysis, Action, and Culture are the foundation for the rubric that exists today (Bambrick-Santoyo,2010). Assessment are techniques that help educators define and improve teaching methods, based on what the students did not learn. For educators to have success for students learning, educators should start by assessing the standards. A standard does not have meaning until you define how to assess it. An assessment is the first step in teaching anything not the end point (Culture.mov,2010).

Analysis is like figuring out a puzzle, it provides immense amount of raw data and when done right, it allows to see many important levels of the data. For Instance, it helps the educator identifies the problem, provides opportunity to brainstorm ideas on how to help the students, identify strengths or weakness, and take steps to achieve students’ goals. 

The action plan is the work , this is where educators plan to apply the insights of the raw data that they have gained to meet students learning needs. During the action plan teacher can re-write the objective to be more understandable for teachers and students. The action plan will create new approaches that will help teachers implement new strategies to improve on teaching methods and better learning for students. With the new action plan it is important to continue to do ongoing assessment to check students understanding and making sure the goals are being met. It can also help educator correct the misconception the student might have with the lesson right at that moment.  

Furthermore, developing a culture in school is important as analysis and action. According to author Bambrick - Santoyo he believes, that without a concrete driver to guarantee data- driven culture, working to build one is fruitless. Establishing the right leadership team will create a culture of data- driven decision-making. It is important to introduce data-driven professional development as one of the priorities. Teacher will be able to see what data driven is capable of, and it value for improving education. Participation of the principle and leader faculty will help you keep the data- driven plan on track. Also, when data driven take place is vital to make time for data, interim assessment, making professional development and allowing time for reteaching. By taking the time and following the step of data driven will help teachers and improve learning as well. I will provide a video link for future reference.

 

  

References

Action.mov. (2010, April 8). YouTube. https://youtu.be/nJeGfP1seEE

Analysis 2.mov. (2010, April 7). YouTube. https://youtu.be/nrWJ8cfIQg0

Bambrick-Santoyo. (2010). Driven by data: Analysis Diving Deep What Happen and why?

Bambrick -Santoyo, P. (2010). Driven by data: a practical guide to improve instruction. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Culture.mov. (2010, April 8). YouTube. https://youtu.be/PJ6KUyKFpyo

Data-driven instruction: Leading analysis meetings. (2012, June 23). YouTube. https://youtu.be/mUd5VJbuD5M

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Youtube link https://youtu.be/DQ5uUkSnlbk

Understanding the Grading System: Traditional Grade VS Standards -Based Grade

 

The state has created a grading system for the schools’ districts to use. The teacher will use the grading system to measure what students have learned. For this week's readings, I learned about what is standard-based grading and traditional grading. So, what exactly is standard based learning. Author Matt Townsley believes that Standards -Based Grading System is based on learning goals, performance and one grade entry given per learning goal. Also including standards or proficiency -based criteria, and criteria goals are made available to students in advance. It measures achievement and selected assessments that are used for grading purposes and emphasizing the most recent evidence of learning when grading. Another thing that I didn’t consider was converting the TEKS into a friendly understandable TEKS. The video I analyzed was created by Veronica Lopez called, “What Every Teacher Ought to know about TEKS”.  This video insighted good information that stressed on the importance of changing the TEKS to be more understandable for the students, parents and even teachers.  Veronica Lopez mentioned in her video that changing the TEKS is time consuming and bit hard and can be very beneficial.  Changing the TEKS to be called “Things Every Kid Studies”, is a bright idea for students. When it comes to traditional grading from my understanding, It is based on assessment methods which includes quizzes, tests, homework, and projects. According to author Townsley, he believes that assessments are based on percentage system and take into consideration of achievement effort, behavior, extra credit, late penalties and mix assessment. I will provide some link below for future references.

                                          

     

References

Scriffiny, P. (2008). Seven Reason For Standard Based. Educational Leadership. 

Townsley, M. (2014). What is the Difference between Standards-Based Grading (or Reporting) and Competency-Based Education? Aurora Institute. 

What every teacher ought to know about the TEKS. (2014, August 8). YouTube. https://youtu.be/_jo1sQw5ybc

Photo link https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/hand-draw-vector-grades-results-circles-297479735

Video Link part 1:  The Why https://youtu.be/v8cPaA8qgkI

Video Link part 2: understanding your grades https://youtu.be/f5zg-ARxkDU  

Video Links part 3: Problem with traditional Grading   https://youtu.be/ALVX1WHJot8