ASSESSMENT THROUGH THE STUDENTS EYES

Rick Stiggins

Elas Barra Gonzalo Cabrera Francisco Jimnez Marlina Pineda Yamileth Urriola

Assessment through the Students Eyes

Assessment is an oriented-practice that optimizes teachers and students' skills in order to provide meaningful experiences to promote the knowledge construction.

Assessment through the Students Eyes

Today's schools are more focused on helping all students succeed in meeting standards.

Assessment through the Students Eyes

It is necessary a new vision of assessment that can tap the wellspring of confidence, motivation, and learning potential that resides within every student.

The Assessment Experience

For Students on Winning Streaks For Students on Losing Streaks

Assessment contunial susccess.

results provide Assessment results provide evidences of contunial evidences of failure.

The student feels hopeful and The student feels hopeless and optimistic and empowered to initially panicked, giving way to take productive action. resignation. The student thinks it is all good The student thinks this hurt and and he/she is doing fine he/she is confused. Feedback is because feedback helps criticism and public failure is him/her and public success embarrassing. feels good.

The Assessment Experience

For Students on Winning Streaks

For Students on Losing Streaks

The student becomes more The students becomes more likely to seek challenges and likely to seek whats easy.; exciting new ideas, take avoiding new concepts and initiative and risks and stretch. approaches, initiative and risks. These actions lead to self- These actions lead to selfenhancement, acceptance of defeat, denial of responsability, responsability, continuous high stress, frustration, inability adaptation, and resilience. to adapt, and yielding quickly to defeat.

Assessment through the Students Eyes

Assessment for learning begins when teachers share achievement targets with students, presenting those expectations in studentfriendly language accompanied by examples of exemplary students work.

Assessment through the Students Eyes

Assessment through the Students Eyes

In this context, students become both self-assessors and consumers of assessment information so learners begin to sense that success is within reach if they keep trying.

Set Students Up for Success

Help Students Turn Failure into Success

The teacher highlights the meaning of success and turns the responsibility over to the student.

The teacher calls the class's attention applying feedback so students can correct mistakes.

The teacher provides differentiated instruction and the class also plans strategies to avoid simple mistakes.

Assessment through the Students Eyes

We must expand the criteria by which we evaluate the quality of our assessments at all levels and in all contexts.

We must abandon the limiting belief that adults represent the most important assessment consumers or data-based decision makers in schools.

As a conclusion