Prospective teachers will critically examine factors that influence assessment practices and policies in districts, schools, and classrooms. They will consider how formative and summative data are and can be used to evaluate student learning and improve teacher instruction. They will design and develop a variety of assessments for student learning. Prospective teachers will analyze accountability systems, standardized testing, and high-stakes decision making.
Assessment of Student Learning Project
Project Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to practice the process of analyzing student learning using classroom assessments. This project aligns to the following learning targets for CI 3400:
I can analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of various assessment practices.
I can analyze/design quality rubrics.
I can analyze student learning using classroom assessment data.
I can give specific and meaningful feedback to students.
I can discuss student learning using student data.
I can determine next steps for student learning using assessment data.
Project Directions For this project, you will be scoring a set of student work, providing feedback to students, graphing your data, and discussing in detail how students will use your feedback to improve and you will use the assessment data to improve your teaching. This project aligns with edTPA Task 3: Assessment and is intended to prepare you for this portion of edTPA. This project will be graded using the ASL Rubric (link). This is a performance assessment that uses written response.
For my project I chose the 11th grade honors biology resources. Not having a strength in biology, myself, I relied on the NC Essential State Standards as well as the resources I was given by the "teacher" to make my assessment and build data to show student understanding and growth.
For this project I designed a curriculum assignment for Intermediate Visual Arts classes grades 9-12. My assignment was to choose a work of art and develop a series of studies leading up to a final master study of that work. The studies would be documented in a visual journal and in miniature or partial studies using various mediums to better understand the work as a whole.