Integrating Curriculum, Assessment, and Evaluation: A Comprehensive Guide for Educators
This resource provides educators with strategies for effectively aligning curriculum planning with assessment and evaluation. Explore the nuances of big ideas, overall and specific expectations, and how to support deep learning through KICA: Knowledge, Inquiry, Communication, and Application. Learn methods for diagnostic assessment, scaffolding, and providing descriptive feedback. Implement varied evaluation techniques focusing on triangulation and valid instruments to enhance reliability and student outcomes. Ensure comprehensive tracking of student performance against overall expectations throughout the course.
Integrating Curriculum, Assessment, and Evaluation: A Comprehensive Guide for Educators
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Planning Curriculum Hand in Hand with Assessment and Evaluation
From Curriculum Document to Course • Big Ideas • Strands • Overall expectations • Specific expectations
What would it look like… • If a student has a deep level of learning? • They demonstrate KICA • Knowledge and Understanding • Inquiry/Thinking • Communication • Application or Making Connections • (comes from Bloom’s taxonomy)
How will I support students learning of the curriculum? • Diagnostic assessment • Lessons & Practice • Learning Goals & Success Criteria • Scaffolding • Assessment with Descriptive Feedback
How would I measure a student’s learning? • Evaluations • Varied methods -triangulation where possible – to gain reliability • Based on assessment opportunities • With valid instruments
Where strands are discrete units of study • BTT 1O1 • Digital Literacy • Productivity Software • Design Software • Business Communication • Ethics and Issues in Information and Communication Technology
Where strands are discrete units of study • SNC 1D1 • Science Skills • Biology • Chemistry • Space Science • Electricity
Issues • Timing of units limited • Do not revisit OE • May need the skills and info from one unit before another unit • Hard to evaluate more than once to triangulate or use most recent, most consistent strategy
Where strands are skills that continue throughout • E.g English 1D1 • Oral communication • Reading and Literature Studies • Writing • Media studies
Where strands are skills • AVI 1O1 • Creating and presenting • Reflecting, responding, & analyzing • Foundations
Issues • Course not usually delivered in the order of the skill strands since they are not mutually exclusive • Develop another structure of units to deliver curriculum • Evaluate each OE several times across the course leading to more reliable triangulation, and most recent, most consistent in grade determination
Board direction… • That overall expectations be evaluated and student performance be tracked in each • Grades be determined in each OE based on triangulation of achievement of multiple examples of evidence and used to determine 70%
On the way there… • Use and weight strands based on… • Relative amount of time that will be spent on the strand • Importance of the material in the strand to the Big Ideas • Can be equal or not • Can be re-adjusted if in reality you do not finish
Tracking Evidence by Strand • Still accountable for ensuring that all OE have been evaluated • Use professional judgement of evidence within the strand to determine 70%
Track Evidence by OE • Could have 9-18 categories • Identify sections of evaluations that apply to each OE • Ensure multiple measurements of each OE • Make each measurement equal weighting (convert levels or make each measurement out of the same amount) • Use professional judgement; most recent, most consistent within each OE