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January 9, 2018
Categories of Next Instructional Steps
A crucial step in the formative assessment cycle is
choosing an instructional response to respond to the evidence of your students' understanding found by analyzing and sorting student work. After sorting the student work, you can use the
Evidence Collection Sheets to help you look at trends in the class to decide how you will adjust your instructional plans to fill in any gaps in understanding, address common underlying issues and push your students up on the
OGAP Learning Progressions.
There are several different options for instructional responses, depending on the evidence you find in the student work. Categories of next instructional steps are listed in the chart below from least to most intrusive on your instructional time and preparation.
Action Item
Select and Sequence:
Next time you give an OGAP Item, try using some of your own students' work as an instructional tool. Select and sequence two to three pieces of student work that will help build your students' understanding of more sophisticated strategies and highlight connections or important mathematical ideas. Plan some open-ended questions you can ask in order to spark a discussion about the underlying mathematical concepts, help students see connections between different strategies and/or support them in moving towards more sophisticated strategies.
Examples of targeted questions:
What's the same about these two strategies? What's different?
Ask a student to explain another student's strategy in their own words
Directly highlight a connection: e.g. "Where do you see 10 x 32 in the second solution?"
Did you know?
You can access the OGAP Item Banks online in two ways: find our new searchable OGAP item bank
here (
bookmark it!) or view the PDFs at www.ogapmath.com/item-bank.
