Class Outline: February 22, 2005 (#6)
Topic: Lesson Planning - More Data Collection Methods

4:20 - 4:50	professional development snapshots: Lila, Nikki, Cyndie
4:50 - 5:35	interactive presentation: Specific classroom-based assessment techniques
5:35 - 6:15	small group activity:  Share the assessment instruments from your backward plan within your small group. Please provide suggestions to each other of (1) how you can improve your instruments and (2) how you could modify them for different contexts.
6:15 - 6:45	report back to whole group & discuss
6:45 - 6:50	minute paper

.Notes:
• Julia will not be holding office hours of Monday, March 1, 2005.
• Bring a lesson plan to class on March 8 to share within your small group.

• This is a brief article on "Why Should Assessment Be Based on a Vision of Learning?" from the North Central Regional Educational laboratory: http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/rpl_esys/assess.htm

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Web pages on Rubrics:

• The "Cool Lessons" web site has a list of internet resources on rubrics
• Chicago Public Schools has information on creating performance-based assessments, including rubrics
• Look at this performance-based assessment, embedded within a neat 5th grade Social Studies activity from Montgomery COuntry Public Schools: http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/MSPAP/Imported.html

 
Web Pages on Portfolios:
• Dr. Helen Barrett at the University of Alaska Anchorage has a wealth on information and resources on her page about electronic portfolios
• This short article from ASCD compares three different kinds of portfolios in education


Photos of actual classroom-based assessments from real classrooms:

• A primary grade self assessment writing checklist.
• A classroom behavior graph
• A KWL chart in Spanish, for a bilingual first grade classroom
• Student developed statements of what it mean to "be ready to learn" and student developed learning goals (in Spanish)
• Graph of student performance on a writing rubric (first grade)
• An example of a "plus/delta" graphic organizer
• A graph for bilingual first graders of how many students engaged in nightly reading with their parents
• A self-assessment scatterplot for writing
• A first grade writing rubric in Spanish, with a class graph of progress
• A primary grade word choice rubric