Formative Assessment Strategies

for
Your Online Classroom

Santosh Mahapatra
My plan for this session

1. Online formative assessment strategies: what & why

2. How do I choose the best strategies for my classroom?
3. How do I know if my OFA strategies are effective?
4. What do I do if they are not effective?
5. How do I improve my OFA ability?
6. Q-A
Online formative assessment strategies: what & why

 FA: let’s find out what you know about it (Quiz 1)

 OFA: how it’s similar to or different from FA (Quiz 2)
 Qualities: valid, content-driven, feedforward-based, accessible,
relatively easy and quick, affordable, engaging (Quiz 3)
 Ideally, all these qualities matter
 Ways of collecting information about student learning
Let’s think about OFA strategies
Self (S) Peer (P) Teacher (T)

Checklist

Rating scale

Rubrics

Quizzes

Very short informal

presentation

Opinion poll

Oral QA, 1 min summary, observation, reflective journals, portfolio, etc

https://www.utwente.nl/en/examination/faq-testing-assessment/60formativeassessment.pdf
How do I choose the best strategies for my classroom? (Handout 1)

Level Valid Accessible Feedforward Easy & quick Engaging

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How do I know if my OFA strategies are effective?

 Improvement in student engagement

 Indicators of engagement?
 Asking questions, participating in meaningful discussions,
attending classes regularly, completing tasks on time, ??
 Improvement in performance
 Indicators of performance?
 Samples of performance through a variety of methods
 Use of application-based tasks
 Leading to better performance in summative assessments
 Report of less difficulty, less errors, faster response, ???
 Can you go wrong even if student engagement and
performance are improving?

 Better digital tool? Better pedagogic technique? Better

materials?
What do I do if they are not effective?

 Go back to the checklist and ask questions

 Is it valid: assessing what it is supposed to assess, example?
 Is it accessible: you and students can afford and use it, example?
 Do students receive feedforward: example?
 Is it engaging?
Resolving the issue

 Problem with the assessment method or the tool? (Handout 2)

 High chance with assessment method, low with digital tools
 How do I improve my OFA ability?

 Knowing what you need to know (Handout 3)

 How I can know what I need to know: reading, watching
videos, being part of online communities and participating in
discussions, asking questions to experts (I believe this is the
best way), talking to colleagues and collaborating with them
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