Day 3 Teaching & Learning with Formative & Summative Evaluation
  • Formative Assessment--Data-driven instructional decision making using student measures to change current program (YEA, Benchmarks, TIERS)
  • Summative Assessments -- Data used to summarize the effectiveness of your program (TAKS, Program Evaluations)

 

Major Questions to Ask & Answer:

  1. What is it you want your students to be able to do? (Resource)
  2. If  students engage in this activity at what level will they be thinking, producing?  How will I know?
  3. At what level of complexity will they be interacting with the content?  How will I know? 

Overview PowerPoint

  
ILD Review

Planning a Course:

SEDL Tool Kit

Gauging Progress

The Big6 Skills Approach to Information Problem Solving
© Eisenberg and Berkowitz 1987

The Big6 is an information literacy curriculum, an information problem-solving process, and a set of skills which provide a strategy for effectively and efficiently meeting information needs.   When taught collaboratively with content area teachers K-12  in concert with content-area objectives, it serves to ensure that students are information literate.

The Big6

1. Task Definition
1.1 Define the task (the information problem).
1.2 Identify information needed in order to complete the task (to solve the information problem).

2. Information Seeking Strategies
2.1 Brainstorm all possible sources.
2.2 Select the best sources.

3. Location and Access
3.1 Locate sources.
3.2 Find information within the sources.

4. Use of Information
4.1 Engage in the source (read, hear, view, touch).
4.2 Extract relevant information.

5. Synthesis
5.1 Organize information from multiple sources.
5.2 Present the information.

6. Evaluation
6.1 Judge the process (efficiency).
6.2 Judge the product (effectiveness).

 

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