Formative Assessment
What is Formative Assessment?
Utah State Board of Education (USBE) has created a Formative Assessment Toolkit to support educators by increasing their capacity to leverage the formative assessment process to inform personalized instruction and more effectively work with students to build competency. This toolkit will help drive teachers' instruction based on the needs of their students. This is a great resource for classroom educators filled with ideas of how to leverage in the moment student responses to adjust and drive future instruction.
Formative Assessment Process Toolkit
Formative Assessment is a planned, ongoing process used by all students and teachers during learning and teaching to elicit and use evidence of student learning to give teachers and students the opportunity to identify strengths and weaknesses with specific knowledge, skills, and abilities outlined in the Utah Core Standards. It is often referred to as assessment for learning.
The formative assessment process requires students and teachers to integrate and embed the following key practices in a collaborative and respectful classroom environment:
- Clarifying learning goals and success criteria within a broader progression of learning
- Eliciting and analyzing evidence of student thinking
- Engaging in self-assessment and peer feedback
- Providing actionable feedback
- Using evidence and feedback to move learning forward by adjusting learning strategies, goals, or next instructional steps
Formative tools are provided to assist with this planned process including the RISE Benchmark modules, RISE Interims, High School Core Benchmarks, Acadience Reading Progress Monitoring, Utah Compose, and Utah Test Item Pool Service (UTIPS).
What is a Learning Progression?
A learning progression is a carefully sequenced set of building blocks composed of the essential skills and knowledge that students must master as part of the path to achieving a learning goal. They are not standards or instructional objectives.
- Provide educators a pathway to think carefully about what is required to keep learning moving forward
- Serve as the foundation and blueprint for instruction and formative assessment
- Describe the stages or levels students move through as their understanding develops, the kinds of tasks that students can perform at each level, and what that performance looks like
- Allow educators and students to focus on deep learning
- Use multiple measures that focus attention on what students are learning
- Increase student motivation and self-regulation with individualized instruction
Creating a Learning Progression Framework
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Utah Test Item Pool Service (UTIPS)
The Utah Test Item Pool Service (UTIPS) is a formative assessment tool provided to all Utah K-12 educators for use in any subject area (e.g. Career and Technical Education (CTE), Social Studies, Health Education, etc.) at any grade level.
Educators can use the UTIPS tool to write their own assessment items to assign to their students in a variety of formats including multiple-choice, multi-select, hot text, matching, and short-answer questions. An equation editor is provided for teachers and students. Automated scoring is available for all item types except writing. Assessments can be shared across classrooms, schools, and across Utah. Reports have been updated and provide detailed results that can be used to inform instruction and to assist students in setting learning goals.
UTIPS was launched in 2011 in a collaborative effort between the Utah State Board of Education and the Utah Education Network (UEN) and includes a Utah educator-created item bank for English Language Arts and Mathematics. The UTIPS item bank was realigned to the 2013 Utah Standards ELA and Mathematics. New items were added to the item bank in 2019 (math) and 2020 (ELA).
UTIPS Help Desk
Students must contact their teacher(s) for UTIPS assistance. No Help Desk assistance is provided to students.
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