Week 4
Reading Resurces:
Brookhart, S., & Nitko, A. (2019). Educational assessment of students (8th ed.).
· Chapter 9: Fill-in-the-Blank and True-False Items (167-179 pages only)
· Chapter 10: Multiple Choice and Matching Exercises (182-210 pages only)
· Chapter 11: Higher-Order Thinking, Problem Solving, and Critical Thinking (optional)
· Chapter 12: Essay Assessment Tasks (243-258 pages only)
· Chapter 13: Performance and Portfolio Assessments (261-298 pages only)
Part A: After reading this week’s readings & resources, respond to the following prompt. How do grades relate to student success? Think about the following questions: why do we have grades, are grades necessary, personal grade experiences about learning, and who benefits from the grading process?
Part B-
Using your
assessment plan
and
grading model
, craft assessment items for each type listed below. For each item, indicate the objective being assessed.
· Fill-in-the-blank – write a minimum of three items
· True-False – write a minimum of three items
· Multiple Choice – write a minimum of three items
· Matching – write one matching set that has at least five premises and responses
· Essay – write one essay prompt and include a rubric to assess student responses
· Performance Assessment – use the description from your assessment plan and include a rubric to assess student performance
Part C:
Write a Gist statement that addresses the prompt. Your Gist statement needs to be 75 words or less. A typical Gist statement is usually 20 words or less, but due to the complexity of the prompt, the word length has been increased.
Planning for Integrating Assessment and Instruction
Diagnostic and Formative Assessments
Providing Formative Feedback
Evaluating and Grading Student Achievement
Assessment and Evaluation
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Assessment, Data Monitoring, and Applied Practice
Part A: Readings
Chapter 6: Planning for Integrating Assessment and Instruction
The educational programs, arranging, evaluation, and guidance are inseparably connected. While arranging educational plans and illustrations, educators need to take care of both degree and grouping. Scope alludes to the range and profundity that content will be shrouded in the educational plan, though arrangement alludes to the request wherein content will be conveyed. Together, a degree and grouping guarantee that guidance is very much arranged, covers learning guidelines, and gives guidance suitable to grade-level students.
Chapter 7: Diagnostic and Formative Assessments
Assessment can fill a wide range of needs. Most teachers know about the customary approach to evaluating understudies, like mid-term and end-of-the-year tests (as a rule utilizing different decision questions). There is an explanation that this kind of evaluation is so famous – it is cost-productive (as in the case of various decision tests), takes a moderately short measure of time to make and grade, and gives a mathematical synopsis (grade) of how much an understudy has learned.
Chapter 8: Providing Formative Feedback
Formative feedback is instrumental in the growth opportunity of an understudy. It tends to be powerful in advancing learning assuming it is ideal, individual, sensible, persuasive, and in direct connection to evaluation measures. Despite its significance, research proposes that understudies are deterred from participating in the feedback process fundamentally because of reasons that connect with the absence of inspiration and trouble in connecting with and reflecting on the input remarks
Chapter 15: Evaluating and Grading Student Achievement
When it comes to student execution, giving successful, learning-focused criticism and an opportunity to utilize that input matters. From time to time, educators will asses kids’ and youngsters’ advancement and accomplishments to have the option to prepare and to record and write about progress. This will assist with guaranteeing that their advancement is on target and that any vital move is made to help their learning
Part B-Logistics of Assessment
Assessment is carried out to determine and see the progress of the student, to see what they have understood and what they can do. Assessment is very crucial in tracking the progress of the students. Assessment takes place when;
Assessment happens as a component of continuous learning and instructing, intermittently and at key changes.
As a component of continuous learning-Children and youngsters’ advancement, assets and necessities are surveyed as a feature of everyday learning and instructing. Instructors and others do this by, for instance, watching and paying attention to students completing assignments, by taking a gander at their message or make, and by taking into account how they answer questions. Kids and youngsters will be engaged with arranging their following stages in learning.
Time to time (occasionally)- From time to time, educators will asses kids’ and youngsters’ advancement and accomplishments to have the option to prepare and to record and write about progress. This will assist with guaranteeing that their advancement is on target and that any vital move is made to help their learning
Assessment is done at key points and transitions -Transitions are the moves learners make, from home to early learning and childcare settings, from one phase to another (and through Curriculum for Excellence levels), from essential to auxiliary, to further or advanced education and business. Imparting evaluation data to guardians is critical to guarantee all students are upheld and have a positive encounter. Data about a student’s headway and accomplishments will be given to ensure that their wide broad instruction and senior stage proceed continuously at the right level and a fitting speed for them.
Assessment is quintessential to learning. The overall idea is that evaluations are the enormous, last, most important tests that occur toward the finish of a term or a school year. However, that isn’t generally the situation. Indeed, even a little conversation or a Kahoot game can function as a speedy evaluation.
Assessments are critical while showing an idea in a class. In addition to the fact that it serves the learners, it likewise serves the educators. Appraisals function as a phenomenal input system to tell the student about their advancement. Assessments serve the learners by telling them what mistakes they made and how they could address those blunders. It likewise assists learners with building up the substance better on the occasion they don’t recall it quite well. It assists the learners with exhibiting what they’ve realized and comprehending the substance that the instructor required weeks of planning, creating, and educating. The consequences of such evaluations are finished throughout some period, then, at that point, assist with assessing the learner’s progress. This additionally assists the learners motivated themselves. Assessments function as a guide to inform the instructor as to whether every one of the goals set out toward the start of the example has been met or not. Each evaluation is planned to the learning targets recorded toward the start of the lesson or course.
Part C-A Unit of Study/Assessment Plan
Assessment Plan Template
Unit Title: Assessment, Data Monitoring, and Applied Practice
Standard: Standard:1.2. F.2 Students will orally read the grade-level text at an appropriate rate, smoothly and accurately, with an expression that connotes comprehension.
Goal: Students will listen and speak effectively in a variety of situations with understanding
what was orally comprehended from the story on their level.
Objectives
Student-centered objective-The students will listen to an audio recording for 5 minutes and
give feedback on what they have gained.
Performance-centered objective: The students will apply different communication skills in
sharing their ideas.
Content-oriented objective: Students will read 1 page of grade one level text smoothly and
accurately with appropriate expression
Diagnostic Assessment
The diagnostic assessment plan must happen at the beginning of the learning experience of the new unit. the main focus of the diagnostic assessment is to understand the current knowledge base of the students
Diagnostic assessment is a type of pre-evaluation that permits an instructor to decide learners’ singular assets, shortcomings, information, and abilities before guidance. It is fundamentally used to analyze learner challenges and to direct examples and educational program planning.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Speaking and Listening: Students will create and apply successful communication abilities through talking and undivided attention. Understudies will ask and address inquiries to look for help, get data, or explain data introduced orally through text or different media, to affirm understanding
Lesson 2: Critical Reading and Writing: Students will fathom, decipher, assess, and answer different complex texts of all literary and educational types from an assortment of verifiable, social,
ethnic, and worldwide perspective
Lesson 3: Vocabulary: Students will extend scholastic, suitable, grade-level vocabularies through perusing, word review, and class discussion.
Formative assessments
The types of formative assessment to be used throughout this unit of study are;
1. Clarifying Learning-Before guidance begins, explaining what learners realize and letting them in on the most proficient method to check to assume they’re fruitful. Research shows this affects their picking up; having clear targets gives the bearing learners need to make a plan. From that point, understanding what it resembles assuming they’ve learned permits them to turn out to be better assessors; they can contrast themselves to figure out where they are in their learning.
2. Evoking Evidence-Designing successful conversations and questions takes practice. Furthermore, arranging where in the example these exercises will happen is significant. This social event of proof on a continuous premise permits educators to all the more likely to meet understudy advancing necessities in the occasion.
3. Giving Feedback-When it comes to student execution, giving successful, learning-focused criticism and an opportunity to utilize that input matters. It implies working with understudies to get them the data they need to more readily grasp issues and arrangements, so they can offer input to themselves as well as other people. Educators ought to share input that spotlights the errand, makes understudies ponder their presentation, and incorporates a recipe for future activity
4. Actuating Learners-How might we at any point urge learners to possess their learning and become assets for their companions?
To assist learners with fostering a growth mindset, educators can effectively uphold understudies in sorting out which learning methodologies turn out best for them.
Quizzes
Performance assessment
The students will be assessed on progress toward content mastery by;
1. Checking the average score per question
2. The students that student gets on each question
3. Curriculum-based monitoring tests o the students-The teacher uses standardized tests to gauge the understanding of the students. All the learning material of the unit appears on the quizzes
4. Interaction and observation-The teacher can observe the students-The individual interaction between the students and the teacher provides a great opportunity to evaluate the progress of the student.
5. Frequent evaluation-These frequent evaluations and assessments impact positively on how the students perceive themselves as learners and also point out areas that the student is good at and areas that need improvement.
Summative assessment
A summative assessment will take place at the end of the unit.
It will evaluate the student’s level of knowledge and the acquisition of skills.
The main purpose of the summative assessment is to provide clear communication between the teacher and the students. Tests toward the finish of a unit or informative period are a direct method for evaluating students’ abilities and information.
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