We will definitely be revising this assessment this summer now that we have all gone through it and found what worked and what did not work. Overall, it seems that teachers are impressed with student learning and the results of the assessment. However, we need to possibly shorten the assessment and decrease the rigor at the part 1 and part 2 levels.
This year we are going VERY slowly through the curriculum. This assessment has taken between 4 and 5 weeks to complete. It is OK that we are going slow since teachers are learning how to implement these types of tiered assessments and students are learning how to proceed through the tiered assessments. A trend that we are seeing is that some students lack the drive to move quickly since they have not yet felt any consequences. When the final grades are tallied, this may awaken some motivation in students to move more quickly through the next one. Remember, we are all in transition!
Next year, we will not give as much time to complete these assessments. Over the summer we can predict a pacing guide now that we have gone through them once. In the future, we will introduce the assessment with an estimated timeline of when the assessment will close. We should give enough time in class for the majority of students to get through Part 3. Students who wish to complete Part 4 will need to do some of this work outside of the classroom. This means students will actually need to put in some extra effort to get the A.
At this time, we predict assessment 1.1 to be done by the end of the first week after we return from Winter Break. It took over four weeks to get through this assessment as can be seen in the agendas below. The assessments get easier from this point forward!
