CFAs the Easy Way
Integrate technology into your formative assessment practices
DPISD → PLC
 DPISD schools are on a journey to becoming high performing PLCs.
We understand the many changes, demands, and expectations
are being placed on you.
 In a PLC model, you must consistently assess students on their
mastery of the specific content standards that your team has
deemed to be the most essential.
We are having to assess more
often in order to make instructional
decisions and assess student
progress.
This has required us to make a lot
of our own materials, and all of this
can be stressful!
We wish
implementing
technology could be
as simple as this →
The Easiest App
Our Goal for Today:
To eliminate some of that stress
and show you ways to
formatively and summatively
assess students using
technology that will
significantly reduce your
transaction cost.
Objective:
By the end of this session,
participants will have a list of
technology applications that
will increase student
engagement during
assessment and help
decrease the transaction
cost of creating CFAs.
Let us know…
Poll Everywhere
 Benefits of this App:
 Safe environment: students can be vulnerable, give their authentic responses
 Helps to tailor your instruction
 Student monitoring of their own progress
 Another app you could use for the same thing is: Socrative, Quiz
Monkey
Why should I use tech in place of other
methods?
We know that our time and
energy are our two most valuable
resources and you aren’t going
to change a practice in your
classroom unless the benefits
outweigh the cost of your time
and energy.
Post-It Note Activity
How do you
currently
formatively
assess?
Padlet
 Let us show you a way to do
this same activity that will
greatly decrease your
transaction costs.
Go Formative
 A quick, flexible way to
formatively assess.
 Go Formative gives you live
results of open ended, multiple
choice, true false, drawing
questions, and many more.
Yes, quick formative assessment is so important for our daily tracking of student
progress, but the PLC process is so much more.
Kid by Kid, Skill by Skill is one mantra of a PLC.
We must track student progress by standard.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a technology application that could
track our data by standard AND grade the assessments for us as
quick as a flash of a camera?!
Mastery Connect
 Mastery Connect Overview
“I can do CFAs the
Easy Way with
______________”
Pictures optional. 