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Fast and Effective Assessment -Improving Feedback and Reducing Correction
You can purchase a copy of Glen’s book by clicking on this link – Fast and Effective Assessment – Amba Press
Providing helpful feedback and creating meaningful assessment tasks while keeping up with correction and managing a successful work/life balance is one of the biggest challenges of teaching.
Fast and Effective Assessment investigates practical strategies for balancing these demands, offering teachers fast, formative strategies for providing feedback and assessing student performance in the time-poor environment of the everyday classroom.
Session One – Questioning Technique:
This sessions explores how making small adjustments to your questioning technique takes little additional preparation time but can have a profound effect on student outcomes. We discuss a score of practical techniques for eliciting and responding to your students as a whole class and one on one. Emphasis will be given to the everyday challenges of questioning: offering strategies for helping students who are are reluctant to answer questions or who offer incorrect responses, dealing with interruptions, eliciting more detailed answers and addressing student who dominate class discussion.
- Learn how to foster fuller participation in class discussion
- Discuss techniques for addressing interruptions
- Learn how to sequence questions effectively
- Explore strategies for eliciting more thorough ‘evidentiary reasoning’ from students of all abilities
Session Two – Learning Goals & Feedback Techniques:
This sessions investigates strategies for helping students internalise learning goals and for giving students and receiving feedback on your students feedback towards those goals. We will explore a range of engaging modelling strategies to ensure students know what success really looks like as well as techniques for ensuring students not only know the learning purpose of the lesson but use this goal as compass point for guiding their learning. We will also explore feedback techniques for giving students immediate feedback in class that they act on rather than adding their work to already large pile of correction. The accent here will on offering feedback that is fast, formative and effective.
- Learn modelling strategies such ‘ranked’ and ‘inverted’ models and ‘patchwork’ rubrics
- Learn quick ways to provide students with immediate feedback in the classroom
- Discuss techniques for ensuring students take real ownership of learning goals
- Explore learning activities and games for quickly assessing student performance
Session Three – Reducing Correction:
This session discusses techniques for reducing written correction and encouraging students to take a more active role in the correction cycle. We explore practical techniques for correcting work more quickly as well as reducing the total amount of work you need to mark in the first place. One key element of this process is using third-stage correction tools which ensure students play a role in reviewing their own and their peers work and ensure students more readily take up your advice.
- Learn activities and routines for marking student work in a timely fashion.
- Explore technology that helps teachers quickly collate, assess and respond to student work.
- Learn how to identify what elements of work students can self and peer-correct.
- Discuss how to create feedback so that students are more likely to act on that advice immediately.
By the end of the workshop participants would have explored the following:
- Strategies for accelerating the speed at which you mark work
- Strategies for giving and receiving feedback so that student mistakes can be addressed quickly in class rather than through laborious written correction
- Methods for reducing the volume and extent of your correction
- Techniques for encouraging students take a more active role in the feedback process and to more readily act on your assessment advice so that your time spent marking has maximum impact
