This is the presentation that was shared with parents at our curriculum information evening. The focus of the evening was assessment in the PYP.

1. Curriculum Night
Canadian International School"
"" " " " Grade 6 "
Focus on Assessment"
" " Thursday 15 September 2011"
To Develop Responsible Global Citizens and Leaders Through Academic Excellence
!

2. Central Idea:"
Assessment is integral"
to all teaching and learning.
"

3. Pre-Assessment Activity"
 Heads Down, Tails Up"
 What is assessment?!
 Gallery Walk"

4. Purpose: Learning Intentions"
Parents will:"
 Know what assessment looks like in the Lower School"
 Know a range of assessment strategies and their
purpose"
 Know a range of assessment tools and how to
decipher them"
 Understand the cyclical nature of assessment and how
it impacts teaching and learning (reflective process)"
 Understand the purpose of pre-assessment, formative
assessment, and summative assessment"

5. Purpose: Success Criteria"
To be successful, you will:"
 Use assessment terminology to describe assessment
types, tools and strategies "
 Be able to discuss assessment with teachers and their
child in a way that is mutually understood"
 Support their child to value formative assessment and
focus on feedback as a means of learning for success"
 Consider formative assessment and success criteria
as taking priority over summative assessment and
grades"

6. Learning Engagements:
An Inquiry into Assessment"
Tower Activity – Use the directions in
your envelope to build a tower with the
materials in your teamʼs basket."
10 minutes"

7. Learning Engagements:
An Inquiry into Assessment"
 Self-assess - How did you do?!

8. Learning Engagements:
An Inquiry into Assessment"
 Self-assess - How did you do?!
 Peer-assess - each group assess
other groups with a different strategy"

9. Learning Engagements:
An Inquiry into Assessment"
 Self-assess - How did you do?!
 Peer-assess - each group assess
other groups with a different strategy"
 Review assessments in your own
groups"

10. Learning Engagements:
An Inquiry into Assessment"
Discussion "
What assessments will help you!
build a better tower next time?
"

11. Assessment: Formative"
 Ongoing/continuous  Helps learner reflect on
and woven into and improve knowledge
teaching" and understanding"
 Provides information  Promotes learning by
that is used to plan giving regular and
next stage of learning" frequent feedback"

12. Assessment: Summative"
 Culmination of  Aims to give teachers
teaching and learning and students a clear
process" insight into student
understanding"
 Provides students an
opportunity to
demonstrate what
they have learned"

13. Assessment Strategies"
Performance Assessment !
 Goal directed tasks with criteria set by the teacher,
student or both"
Process Focused Assessment !
 Observation of a certain process a student goes
through to achieve a certain outcome"
Selected Response !
 One dimensional exercise such as a test or quiz"

14. Assessment Strategies"
Open-ended Tasks !
 Students are presented with a stimulus and are
asked to respond in an original way"
Self/Peer/Group Assessment!
 Students evaluate their own or others learning in a
fair and non-judgmental way"
Observations "
 Students are observed in different situations and
from different points of view"

15. Assessment Tools"
 Rubrics "
 Benchmarks"
 Checklists"
 Anecdotal Records"
 Portfolios / Continual"

16. Your Summative Assessment"
 Illustrate how thinking about assessment has
changed over the course of the presentation
by completing a “bridge” graphic organiser."
 Engage in regular discussion with your child
about the success criteria for their learning,
assessment tasks and how peer/teacher
feedback can be used to be better meet the
success criteria."