Miss Younger's Math Musings
While I received minimal feedback on my initial post I lucked out in seeing two responses to my draft right as I was logging on to post my good copy. Throughout the process, I was able to gather ideas and suggestions by reading through my peers’ posts and the comments on them. I found the…
Background Information Langley Fundamental Elementary School (LFES) is a large suburban elementary school serving students from kindergarten through grade five in the Langley School District in British Columbia. LFES is home to 22 division and 550 students with a diverse population including students with exceptionalities, English Language Learners and indigenous students. Based on conversations in…
Rationale My school has seen an increase in the number of students who are not yet meeting grade level expectations for numeracy on both the District Numeracy Assessment in grade 3 and the Foundation Skills Assessment in grade 4. Over all our percentage of students who are fully meeting or exceeding expectations is inconsistent. There…
In the first chapter of The Process of Conducting Research Creswell and Guetterman discuss both the role that research can play in education as well as giving an overview of the process of how to conduct education research. The chapter aligns conducting research with the scientific method beginning with determining what question needs to be…
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Please see the attached document for my theory of action working towards the goal of increasing number sense in my K-5 school. Is there something that you could see working in your school or classroom? What would you find difficult to implement? What would you not want to be part of?
“Classroom assessments that serve as meaningful sources of information don’t surprise students.” (Guskey, 2003) This quote immediately jumped out to me as both a teacher and a learner. As a learner not knowing what would be on an assessment or not knowing how I would be assessed frequently added to the stress of exams and…
References Caines, J., L. Bridglall, B., & Chatterji, M. (2014). Understanding validity and fairness issues in high-stakes individual testing situations. Quality assurance in education. Hubley, A. M., & Zumbo, B. D. (1996). A Dialectic on Validity: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going. The Journal of general psychology.
After viewing the course materials for this section I chose 5 characteristics of good assessment to create an infographic. My 5 characteristics combine information from multiple sources including reading classmate’s discussion board posts to create my own overview. One of the ideas that keeps coming back to me in this module is are we assessing…
https://www.edutopia.org/article/making-assessments-equitable-multilingual-students One of my biggest challenges I find each year when completing our FSA tests is to make it equitable for my ELL students who have the skills and knowledge but not the vocabulary. After reading the linked article form July 2023 I found several strategies that test writers could easily implement when creating LSAs…
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The first thing that comes to mind for me is anxiety, I was a very anxious test taker through my undergraduate degree despite having the skills and knowledge to do well on the test and sufficient preparation for exams. When connecting with students about their test anxiety and helping them develop strategies to adapt and…
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