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Summative Assessment
Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
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Slide2ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
What is Summative Assessment?
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Many assessments can be used for both summative and formative purposes. But some are more suited for summative purposes than formative purposes.
It all depends on how the
results
are used.
Slide3ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
What is Summative Assessment?
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Formative assessment is used to improve instruction and learning
Interim assessments are used to
Predict summative results
Warn of learning deficits
identify achievement gaps
Summative assessments are used to render final judgments
Slide4ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
What is Summative Assessment?
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Many assessments can be used for both summative and formative purposes. But some are more suited for summative purposes than formative purposes.
It all depends on how the
results
are used.
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Summative Assessments
P
rovide
C
ritical
I
nformation
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Information about students' overall learning as well as information about the quality of classroom instruction – especially when they are accompanied by other sources of information and are used to inform practice
End of unit tests or projects
Course grades
Standardized tests
Portfolios
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Summative Assessments
Can Inform Instructional Practices
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Summative assessment can also inform instructional practices in a different yet equally important way as formative assessment.
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Summative Assessment:
Continuous Progress Monitoring
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Summative assessments can also be used with continuous progress-monitoring systems because they allow teachers to track students throughout a school year and, ideally, over an entire academic career, from kindergarten through high school.
Slide8ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Summative Assessments Must
be of the Highest Quality Possible
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Every educator should be concerned that the summative assessments which are part of the assessment system used in their classroom, school, district, and state are of the highest quality possible.
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Validity defines the quality
of education assessment
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The simple definition of validity is that a test measures what it is supposed to measure. But validity also means that an assessment provides sound information supporting the purpose of the assessment. So an assessment whose scores have a high degree of validity for one purpose may have little validity for another.
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Valid Summative Assessments
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For a summative assessment to be valid it must:
Be aligned with district and school learning
Provide reliable information
Be fair, unbiased, and accessible
Be instructionally sensitive
Have high utility
Provide useful information
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Summative Assessment Must be Aligned
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A summative assessment
aligned
with school learning goals and intended purposes precisely measures the intended learning targets for the curriculum being taught at that grade level.
An
aligned
summative assessment measures the learning goals so that the
results
accurately determine what school officials wanted to know about student mastery.
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Summative Assessment
Must be Reliable to Have
V
alidity
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If the test’s results have no reliability the test has
no validity
.
An unreliable summative test will diminish the usefulness of the results.
It is important to understand that
reliability is
critical
to an effective summative assessment of student learning.
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Summative Assessment has to
be Fair, Unbiased and Accessible
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Generally a summative assessment can be biased if a group of students is offended or unfairly penalized on the basis of personal characteristics such as gender, religion, race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status.
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Summative Assessment
Must
b
e Instructionally Sensitive
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In a presentation at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Dr. W. James
Popham
explained:
“A test’s
instructional sensitivity
represents the degree to which students’ performances on that test accurately reflect the quality of instruction specifically provided to promote students’ mastery of whatever is being assessed.”
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Summative Assessment Must
b
e Useful
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A summative assessment of student knowledge and skill is useful when it accurately measures students’ mastery of the curricular aim being assessed
Good summative assessment indicates instructional quality, mastery of content standards, and supplies accurate accountability evidence
Slide16ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Activity One
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Answer the
essential question:
How do we ensure the quality of Summative Assessments?
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Slide17Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
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Summative Assessment
Are Used at Different Levels
Summative assessments are used and impact the:
Classroom
School
District
State
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Kansas State Department of Education
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Summative Assessments are
P
art of an
I
ntegrated
C
lassroom Assessment System
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Formative and summative assessments serve different purposes
S
hould be used ultimately within an integrated classroom system of assessment, curriculum, and instruction
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Summative Assessments
S
upport Instruction
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Summative assessments support instruction, because they are usually an important part of a grade. Students and parents do care about grades
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Classroom Summative Assessments
Provide Valuable Information
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Compared with state and district tests, teacher-designed classroom summative assessments are more immediately available and their learning targets have been more recently taught.
Slide21ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Use Test Banks from Published
Material with Great Caution
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Carefully designed common or textbook provided unit tests can provide high quality summative assessments
However, test banks from published material should be used with great caution because they may use different grammar or syntax than the teacher used to teach
Standards and examples may not agree with the teacher’s methods of explaining them
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Students use Classroom
S
ummative
T
est
Results to Make
Decisions About Learning
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If the summative test items are matched to the intended learning targets, teachers can guide students in examining their right and wrong answers in order to answer questions such as:
What are my strengths relative to the standards?
What have I seen myself improve?
Where are my areas of weakness?
Where didn't I perform as desired, and how might I make those answers better?
What do these results mean for the next steps in my learning, and how should I prepare for improvement?
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Grades Determined by Summative
A
ssessment
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Grades can be produced by ten or fewer quality summative assessments.
The student should be well prepared for summative assessment as a result of participation in the formative assessment process.
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Ensure Summative
A
ssessments are High
Q
uality
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Keep wording simple
Be sure there is only one correct or best answer
Avoid using “which of the following” in the stem whenever possible
Don’t repeat the same words in the response items
Ask a complete question
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Ensure Summative
A
ssessments are High
Q
uality
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Consider carefully:
L
earning goals or benchmarks
R
elative importance of each
Type of assessment item most appropriate
C
ognitive level at which to assess
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Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Tips for Creating Student-Friendly Tests
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Foster Validity
Foster Accessibility
Ease Anxiety
Ensure Ongoing Improvement
Slide27ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Four Recommendations to
Determine More Reliable Grades
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Recommendation 1:
Get rid of the omnibus or single letter grade.
Recommendation 2:
If you can't get rid of the omnibus grade, provide scores on measurement topics in addition to the grade.
Recommendation 3:
Expand the assessment options available to students.
Recommendation 4:
Allow students to continually update their scores on previous measurement topics.
Slide28ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Kansas State Department of Education
ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT
Activity Two
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Participate in This Activity on How Summative Assessments are Used in the Classroom
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Let’s conclude by considering how summative assessments are used in the classroom by participating in
Activity Two
.
Summative Assessment
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