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https://edspace.org.nz/discussion/view/102871/ten-trend-real-time-reporting Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:23:46 +1200 https://edspace.org.nz/discussion/view/102871/ten-trend-real-time-reporting <![CDATA[Ten Trend: Real-time reporting]]> Real time reporting

What’s this Trend all about?

Ten Trends technology wedge

Effective use of assessment data in a digital age is at the forefront of our thinking in education. For example, on-going data sharing (digitally) can provide parents and whānau access to ‘on demand’ information about their child’s learning - wherever, whenever. In a digital age, that demands more personalised experiences; it would seem a six-monthly, one-size-fits-all model for reporting needs to be revisited, so that students and their whānau can get a more accurate picture of their child’s real-time performance (Ten Trends 2019 PDF, p10).

 

What’s driving the change?

  1. Demand for more timely, personalised feedback
  2. Greater emphasis on formative assessment and reporting
  3. Technological developments

MarathonThere is plenty of evidence and research to show that regular connections between parents and whānau and school and kura can have a positive impact on learners. With technological advancements, anyone can receive ‘on demand’, real time, personalise feedback (how am I doing) on pretty much anything - from health records to bank records. So it would seem six-monthly reporting on student/ākonga progress is an outdated and ineffective way to provide real-time formative assessment to inform next steps in learning.

 

CORE Education PLD facilitator Katrina Laurie, has been working in schools where Ten Trends, Real-time reporting and Understanding Success has resonated with her schools.

 

Katrina quote

 

How have the Ten Trends been introduced?

As soon as the CORE Ten Trends 2019 were launched on Facebook, Katrina Laurie could see connections for the teachers and leaders she was working with. As Katrina says “It has allowed opportunities to further understand our focus, ask more questions, delve deeper into what this looks like in practice”.

 

In Linton Camp School, there has been a PLD focus on assessment capability and learner agency so students can articulate and share their learning via digital portfolios with parents/whānau.

 

Ngā wero or challenge: Teams to prepare an elevator pitch about the Ten Trend: Real-time reporting.

Teachers familiarised themselves with two of the Ten Trends (Real-time Reporting, Understanding Success) and then worked in pairs to create elevator pitches about Real-time reporting and Understanding Success trends and the drivers influencing this. This led to deeper discussions and wonderings, which in-turn, progressed into trialing innovative ways to create authentic, real-time reporting opportunities with the students - to help develop assessment capabilities using Seesaw. See examples of this below.

 

Wer or challenge

 

 

What examples can we see?

Westmere School (Whanganui) has engaged in Digital Fluency PLD for some time now, with a growing focus on using Seesaw to replace their mid-yearly reporting format.

 

Purpose: Show how authentic progress across the curriculum whilst developing a unique, student led set of evidence to monitor progress and celebrate learning. Using Seesaw is as much about the process as it is the product.

In this context, the Ten Trend: Real-time reporting was shared with the staff, where they further explored ways to use Seesaw (skills section and folders) to report in real time; so that students can share their learning with parents and whānau. The school developed the following draft framework to help guide this process.

 

Here’s what the staff have had to say about progress towards responsive, real-time reporting.

 

 

There are some powerful guiding questions (Ten Trends 2019 PDF, p. 14) you can use within your school/s. Why not comment below and share how you have or will introduce the Real-time reporting trend in your school? We’d love to see what personalised, on-going, on-demand reporting looks like for your students. Simple join the CORE Ten Trends group to contribute below.

A big thank you to Katrina Laurie, Linton Camp School and Westmere School for sharing this story.

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