Making Authentic Assessments
Staff and volunteers will be able to evaluate what is learned by youth before, during, and after STEM activities.
As a result of ongoing, consistent professional development efforts, staff and volunteers will be able to:
- Develop strategies to formally or informally evaluate the knowledge, engagement attitudes and skills of youth during and after learning experiences.
- Use information collected about what youth understand and are able to do to make decisions about their teaching and plan learning experiences.
Resources
Skill: Making Authentic Assessments
Activities to Guide Authentic Assessment
Participants will engage in peer review in order to devise strategies for getting youth involved in peer assessment.
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Building for the Big One
Frontline staff and volunteers will be able to evaluate the content youth learn before, during, and after STEM activities.
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Creating STEM Rubrics
Afterschool staff and volunteers will develop an understanding of rubrics and how to creat them with youth.
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Do They Get It?
Afterschool staff and volunteers will be able to use formative assessment as a tool to communicate expectations before, during, and after student learning.
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Technology for Assessment
Participants will evaluate technology that can be used for assessment purposes within lessons.
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Assessing Youth using Graphic Organizers
Participants will watch the Assessing Youth Using Sticky Notes video-based learning module and identify ways to use a stick note chart during STEM activities.
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Seeking and Supporting Student Ideas
Learn new strategies for actively seeking and supporting students’ ideas and points of view in STEM learning. We will consider the differences between assessing understanding during an activity and assessment at the end of an activity and plan creative strategies that make assessment fun and useful.
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Technology For Assessment
Lemond describes using technology and the app Kahoot! to informally assess youth during STEM learning experiences.
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Knowing When STEM Learning Runs Deep
Learn how to use formative and summative assessment strategies to engage youth in learning. The focus is on assessing learning in out-of-school time programs in ways that are authentic for learners and useful for us as facilitators. We will share actual strategies you can take from this webinar and put to use in your program.
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