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Colorado Student-Centered Science Assessment Learning Series and Toolkit
2024-2025 Learning Series
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Using AI Tools to Enhance Classroom Assessment Processes
See how one assessment designer is applying AI tools to the classroom assessment process—from generating engaging phenomena and designing realistic scenarios, to creating laser-focused questions and providing asset-oriented feedback. We’ll also explore how AI can summarize student responses and produce claims for students to analyze, empowering you to deliver deeper, future-focused science instruction.
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025
Time: 4:00PM – 5:30PM
Fueling Future Success: Feed Forward & Data-Informed Adaptations
Get hands-on with real science classroom assessment data and learn how to “feed forward” into your planning and instruction. We’ll use student data to explore practical strategies for identifying learning opportunities, refining lesson design, and revising assessment tasks. Walk away equipped to make data-informed adaptations that elevate student success and strengthen your science teaching practice.
Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2025
CHECK & CONNECTS
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Transform your existing instructional materials to include an ideal assessment system focusing on day-to-day 'Check and Connect' short assessments. These short formative assessments offer a meaningful way to build a caring culture around assessment, provide actionable information for you AND your learners related to their 3D science learning, and support learners in developing their skills to transfer learning to new phenomena.
➔Design and use short, impactful assessments that provide immediate insights into student progress.
➔Embrace student voice and choice in your assessment strategies.
➔Cultivate a classroom culture of ongoing feedback and reflection.
➔Be part of a collaborative community dedicated to enhancing educational practices through innovative assessment systems.
Virtual Series
Sessions are 4:00PM-5:30PM. All Sessions will be Recorded
October 2024 Virtual Series
Oct 15: Phenomena
Tending to Learner Artifacts
Nov 4: Asset-Orientation to Learning Artifacts
Nov 11: Look at Learner Artifacts Together I
Nov 18: Look at Learner Artifacts Together II
TRANSFER TASKS
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Transform your existing instructional materials to include an ideal assessment system focusing on end of unit transfer tasks. Figure out how to adapt NGSS assessments to be meaningful and coherent for your learners, useful for communicating progress, and manageable for you to provide actionable feedback.
➔Design and implement an assessment system that drives student achievement and informs instructional decision-making district-wide.
➔Leverage your current instructional materials to understand how learners use the 3 dimensions for sensemaking.
➔Gain skills to create district-level common assessments that are instructionally sensitive and designed for 3-dimensional targets.
➔Be part of a collaborative community dedicated to enhancing educational practices through innovative assessment systems.
Virtual Series
Sessions are 4:00PM-5:30PM. All Sessions will be Recorded
Oct 15: Phenomena
Transfer Tasks Design Workshops
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For more information on the Toolkit or to find out how to access professional learning experiences or personalized coaching, please contact Angela Landrum, CDE Principal Consultant, Assessment Systems.
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