2nd 6 Weeks Formative Assessments Timeline (Core Teachers)

Here is an overview of the 2nd 6 weeks formative assessment process.  The reason for specific deadlines to complete tasks is to ensure that the process has a quick turn-around.  A quick turn-around will result in systematic responses for students who fail to learn.  If you have questions about the deadlines, please consult your principal.

Friday, October 24 - FA Deadline

• Submit completed FA Checklist to your principal. (Link to FA Checklist Here)
• Enter formative assessments into Eduphoria (Video Link Here)
• Creating a Test in Eduphoria (CLICK HERE)

November 10 - 14:  Administer Formative Assessments

This is the final week of the 2nd six weeks; therefore, formative assessments must be administered during this week.

Plan for Oral Administration Kids

Principals and teachers should work together to create a schedule for students who have oral administration accommodations.  The schedule should also consider the amount of instructional time lost by the staff members who have to administer the test.  Having scheduled days to administer tests will help tremendously.

Friday, November 14 - Deadline to Enter Tests into Eduphoria

The test data must be entered into the computer no later than Friday, so that principals and teachers have time to extract data for data meetings the following week.

November 17 - 21:  FA Data Review

Teams will meet the following week to review data.  Teams should determine instructional and intervention plans for the following:

• Grade-Level Strengths & Weaknesses
• Teacher or Class Level Strengths & Weaknesses
• Student Intervention & Extensions

Adjust Scope & Sequence Accordingly

If  teams are able to reflect effectively, instructional plans should be modified to reflect the change.  One word of caution is to NOT push things back later in the year because if you put them off, you may not have enough time to teach them deeply.

Celebrate

There will be good results and poor results that come from our assessments.  Anthony Muhammad describes data in this way.  "Data is information, not condemnation".  When we have poor data, that should drive us to determine causal factors that contributed to poor performance.  Once we can determine causal factors, we can then determine our next steps to fix the problem.  

In every assessment, there is always good data.  The problem is that we don't always mine for it.  No matter the result, we must always find our strengths and leverage them to address our weaknesses.  Education is a marathon, not a sprint.  When we celebrate our progress, we accelerate our growth.