Assessment Plan
Dawn Stevane
EDU645: Learning &
Assessment for the 21st Century (MRB1231B)
Instructor: Richard Newman
September 11, 2012
I choose to do my assessment plan on
poetry, I love poetry and figured to find a way to teach the children so they
can share the same love as I do. The purpose of this plan is to be able to
teach the children to master organization skills. Using this plan will help
students show how they learned to organize what they have been taught. While using this plan the students will be
able to show their learning outcomes by demonstrating how they can use their
organization skills in and out of school. I think that the children will learn
through my plan that reading poems or any other literature is fun.
When
it comes to the assessment context of the assessment the students will be able
to demonstrate the different types of poems in their journals. One of the main
purposes of this assessment is to be able to support the learning outcomes of
organization that will be used with the following types of lessons such as
essays, fill in the blanks and multiple choice questions. This
type of test was chosen because it is design to test to see how they are
understanding what they have learned and to let them know that because the
right words is in the answer does not mean that that is the correct answer and
that they should read the whole answer and look at all the other choices to
ensure them of picking the correct answer because everything that looks right
doesn’t mean that it is right.
In the assessment context the
students and I will use this time to be creative, I believe teaching and
modeling what the students are learning, if the teacher follows the steps to
writing poetry the students will follow the steps as well. The students will
have to be, good listeners in order to follow instructions for their final
presentation at the end of this session. During this unit week’s student will
be assessed, by multiple choice questions, oral exam, journal writing skills,
short answer and essay questions.
The Holistic rubric does not list
all the separate levels of performance for each criterion but instead it
assigns a level of performance. The holistic rubric does tend to be used when a
quick or gross judgment needs to be made. But if the assessment is a minor one
such as homework it may be sufficient to use the holistic judgment to check or
review the student’s work then this should be good enough just for this purpose
only.
When
we do an assessment there is some testing constraints that can be used when
testing that can be imposed on the students that need to be in place in order
for them to be able to achieve the highest level of accomplishment that is
possible. There has to be enough time for the students to be able to take the
test so that they will not feel that they need to rush and by doing this they will
have plenty of time to time the test without pressure. It is also the teacher’s
part to make sure that other children will not be allowed to cause distractions
while the other children are taking their test. The teacher will have behavior
plans that will be put in place to prevent distractions. When having the children
learn to not bother the other children you are teaching them the skills that
they need to understand and be respectful.
Writing
an essay can be very important when it is being used for the students to
understand how important it is when they know how to use the functions that
goes along with using the five management skills of organization. The learning
outcome behind the essay is to get the students to know what the instruction
objective because they need to know that there may be times that there will be
advantages and disadvantages to using these types of management depending on
the formats that could influence the choices of their answers. The questions
should
Be
centered on the ages of the children. The question was designed to be able to
support what they have learned. The learning outcome need to be developmental
appropriate for the students to be able to understand what was taught to them
and be able to execute the same results when given the information on a test.
The students will be provided with
all the materials need for them to be able to be prepared for the test such as
paper, pencils and the test questions. If the students have all the material
needed for the test they should do well on it. The amount of time given is 60
minutes totally for completing a performance test. Student were given materials
four sheets of school lined paper stapled together alone with two number
pencils. Verbal and written instruction about completing their essay paper were
to be at least one page writing about the author and instructions on how to
answer and define vocabulary words.
Students were instructed to do their best but
to circle any question they were unsure of and return back to before the
testing session ended. Remain seated and sit quietly until all tests have been
completed and turned in. All students will have knowledge of the scoring
criteria that is inserted into their testing materials; the scorning system is
consistent and fair. There is one proctor assigned to class during testing sessions
students may not ask her help in reading materials. The second testing session
students will be assigned to a computer and given one hour to create a power
point presentation to demonstrate prior knowledge what they have learned, for
this is a very weighted score. By now parents and students should know the
standards by which I will score their project and assessment. Information used
from (Kubiszyn & Borich, pg.201, 202).
After reading some of Shel
Silverstein pomes I began to think of activities and ways to introduce poetry
writing to my struggling fourth grade language arts class. In addition, the
purpose of my assessment plan will function as a guide for me during my
teaching career as it allows me to stay on track, the sole purpose is to remember
what was taught in this course that “instructional objectives should be a clear
and concise statement of skill or skills that your students will be expected to
perform after a unit of instruction” (Kubiszyn & Borich, pg.110, 2010). Let’s see where our poetry writing journey
will take us. My 4th grade Language Arts class will be expected to write poetry
and define the terms.
References:
Kubiszyn,
T. & Borich, G. (2010). Educational testing & measurement: Classroom
application and practice (9th ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
