Education and Life Skills Technical Programme

Assessment to Inform Instruction

 Objectives of the Session
1. To explain the purpose of assessment and how it can be used
to inform instruction.
2. To recognize different diagnostic and formative assessment
tools and strategies.
3. To demonstrate an ability to use formative assessment
strategies.
 Discussion Questions
1. What can happen if Teachers do not know anything about
their students’ learning needs?
2. How can Teachers get to know about students’ individual
learning needs?
3. Do Teachers think it’s possible to “tailor” their instruction in
the classroom to different needs of students?
Why Teachers Collect Data in
Instruction
Because:
1. data can give them insight into how students learn best and
what students like to learn,
2. what students’ current abilities and skill levels are, and
3. where they may need extra assistance or an additional
challenge.
 Process for Collecting Data
1. Collect data about what students know and where they are in
relation to the intended learning goals
2. Analyze the data to identify the next steps to help students
reach their learning goals
3. Take action to adapt lessons in the moment or plan future
activities to reach learning goals
 Some examples of how
Teachers collect data
• Administering diagnostic assessments with students who seem
to be struggling with certain tasks.
• Conducting regular formative assessments with all students.
• Observing students.
• Assessing projects, written work, tests and quizzes, etc.
(summative assessment)
• Creating a learner profile.
 Diagnostic Assessment
• Diagnostic assessments assess specific reading skills that
students are struggling with.
• Diagnostic assessments are useful to understand the learning
needs of students at the beginning.
• No need to assess all children in diagnostic assessments.
 Diagnostic And Proficiency
Assessment (DAPA) Tool
DAPA tool uses to assess literacy skills of individual children.
DAPA assesses four key skills:
1. Letter knowledge (can the child identify the letters?);
2. Reading words (can the child read all the given words?);
3. Reading a short text with accuracy;
4. Answering simple questions about a text (comprehension).
 Formative Assessment
1. Formative assessment is collecting information about
students’ performance.
2. Formative assessments on a regular basis to gather
information about all students’ learning.
Some Strategies of Formative
Assessment
Written response: Each student writes her/his answer
Think-pair-share: Students THINK, PAIR up, then SHARE
ideas.
Partner or group work: Teacher assigns a work to small groups.
No hands up: Students do not raise their hands unless they need
clarification
 ……Strategies of Formative
Assessment
Exit slips: Teacher poses a question to students at the end of the
lesson.
Comment-only: Teacher collects students’ work and writes
comments only
Thanks!