2021 National Harbor Area Conference

November 11-13, 2021

Additional sessions will be added as they are accepted and confirmed over the next several weeks.
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What Do I Do with This? Making Sense of Your Assessment Data

Thursday, November 11 • 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center - National Harbor 6


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STRAND: Sharing Authentic Assessment Strategies

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We are awash in assessment data, but often it’s overwhelming to make sense of it. Come learn tips and strategies for wrangling data.

TAKEAWAYS:
1. Explore new ways to organize data collection and raw data to aid in exploring the data for stories after it is collected; 2. Acquire skills in tying questions, data types, and data visualizations to enhance your ability to make sense of the assessment data; and 3. Identify next steps to better utilize and leverage your assessment data to help you measure students’ success and know what steps to consider next.

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Kristin Hunter-Thomson (Dataspire Education & Evaluation, LLC: Santa Cruz, CA)

General Science Biology Chemistry Earth & Space Science Environmental Science Leadership Life Science Physical Science Physics Preservice Science Education STEM Grades PreK - 2 Grades 3 - 5 Grades 6 - 8 Grades 9 - 12 Postsecondary Hands-On Workshop

Pop Culture's Relevancy in Authentically Assessing Students

Thursday, November 11 • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center - Chesapeake I


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Pop Culture’s Relevancy in Authentically Assessing Students
STRAND: Sharing Authentic Assessment Strategies

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Using pop culture references creates relevant opportunities for teachers to authentically assess students' ability to design/speculate models to revitalize endangered species and vulnerable ecosystems.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn about the intersection between project-based learning, anchoring phenomena and authentic assessments Learn about a model that uses pop culture to create anchoring phenomena and opportunities for authentic assessments Collaboratively identify examples of pop culture that can be used as anchoring phenomena and/or authentic assessment and link them with NGSS standards

SPEAKERS:
Jennifer Chambers (The Siena School: Silver Spring, MD)

Life Science Engineering Grades 6 - 8 Presentation

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