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Assessment Resources PowerPoint® Presentation / Activities / Suggested Readings PowerPoint Presentation CONTENT: This PowerPoint presentation introduces the assessment process. It discusses the importance of assessment, standardized testing, authentic assessment, and rubrics. Sample rubrics are shown and Web links to sample rubric sites are provided. The presentation then asks for group participation. DESCRIPTION: 1. The PowerPoint presentation consists of 23 slides. You can see this PowerPoint presentation online in your browser. 2. If you have Microsoft PowerPoint, you can download the PowerPoint file so you can actually show it as a PowerPoint presentation from your own computer in the classroom. If you download this PowerPoint file, you can make changes, insert your own course information, and use it as you would ANY PowerPoint. Speaker Notes: Each slide in the downloaded and online versions contains Speaker Notes which you can use in class as lecture notes when you show the PowerPoint presentation. 3. If you do not have Microsoft PowerPoint, you can download PowerPoint Viewer® (Windows) or PowerPoint Viewer® (Mac), which will allow you to share this presentation with an audience, but will not allow you to edit it in any way. USES: 1. You can use the html version, online, during class time if you have a computer and presentation system that has Internet access. Use it as you would any lecture presentation material. 2. You can download the PowerPoint to your hard drive or CD-ROM for use on your laptop or classroom computer. You open and run the PowerPoint file just as you would any other PowerPoint presentation. Back to top Activities Read and discuss: Toward Genuine Accountability: The Case for a New State Assessment System What did you think of the analogy Dr. Wiggins makes between basketball and state testing? Explain. Discuss the blueprint Dr. Wiggins suggests for state assessment. Do you agree/disagree? How would you improve it? Discuss Dr. Wiggins' proposal for a state performance system. Discuss the five guiding principles that underlie his proposal. Take a position, either pro or con, and create a PowerPoint presentation defending your position. Present it to the class. Listen to and discuss: Expert Interviews In groups, listen to at least two National Experts and at least three Program Representatives. Discuss each expert interview. Did you agree with the speaker? Why or why not? Report to the class the views of the National Expert with whom you most agreed/disagreed. Explain your position. Report to the class the views of the Program Representative with whom you most agreed/disagreed. Explain your position. Read and discuss: Assessment for Understanding Upon completion download the PDF files from Schools for the Year 2050 Assessment Materials. What did you think of the article? Discuss the section or sections of the article that affected you most. Why did they make you focus on them? Take a position, either pro or con, and create a PowerPoint presentation defending your position. Present it to the class. Read and discuss: Measuring What Counts: Memorization Versus Understanding The objectives of the following activities are to create a project-based lesson and to then create a model rubric for assessment of the lesson. Use what you have learned from the readings and the class discussions. 1. What three elements factor into the creation of a project? 2. What are some of the benefits, according to the article, of project-based learning? 3. What are recommendations for beginning projects in the classroom? Present Word process a reflective paragraph and present it to the class. List projects that would be likely to engage your students. Create a chart or PowerPoint presentation to present your project ideas to the class. Design Choose a project idea. Choose a topic/question for the project-based lesson. Develop the objectives of the project and the tasks. Design a rubric for the project-based lesson. Decide whether the rubric is going to be an example of a teacher-created rubric or teacher-student-created rubric. Create a rubric. (If word processing the rubric, it is suggested that you create a table within the document.) Creating a Rubric from Scratch Visit "How to Create a Rubric from Scratch." Create a rubric using the Web site's suggestions. Using Templates for Creating Rubrics Visit RubiStar. Create a rubric using the Web site's templates. Present Present the rubric you have chosen to use to the class. How does it fit the assessment needs of your students? How does it fit your assessment needs as a teacher? Discuss Discuss why it is a teacher-created or student/teacher-created rubric. What thoughts went into the process of creating the rubric? Discuss Why would one use rubric templates? List the pros and cons of using a template. When would a rubric that did not utilize a template be more likely to be used? Back to top Suggested Readings GLEF Articles and Videos: Toward Genuine Accountability: The Case for a New State Assessment System by Grant Wiggins Assessment for Understanding and accompanying video segment "Assessment Overview" by Roberta Furger Measuring What Counts: Memorization Versus Understanding by Eeva Reeder Assessment: No Single Measure Tells the Story of Student Achievement by Roberta Furger Appropriate Assessments for Reinvigorating Science Education by Bruce Alberts Geometry in the Real World: Students as Architects and accompanying video segment "Mountlake Terrace High School" by Sara Armstrong Urban Academy: Where Testing Is Anything But Standard and accompanying video segment "Urban Academy" by Roberta Furger Grant Wiggins interview Assessment Research by Roberta Furger External Links: Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators "Assessment & Rubric Information" Creating A Rubric for a Given Task RubiStar Interactive Classroom: Creating Rubrics Through Negotiable Contracting and Assessment Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment Recommended Texts: *Edutopia: Success Stories for Learning in the Digital Age* The George Lucas Educational Foundation Published: May 2002 by Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Company Copyright © 2002 ISBN: 0-7879-6082-9 *Tales of Thinking* Paul Carreiro Published: June 1998 by Stenhouse Pub Copyright © 1998 ISBN: 157110061X *Assessment in Educational Reform: Both Means and Ends* Robert W. Lisitz, William D. Schaffer Published: 2002 by Allyn and Bacon Copyright © 2002 ISBN: 0-205-33269-2 *Meaningful Assessment: A Manageable and Cooperative Process* David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson Published: 2002 by Allyn and Bacon Copyright © 2002 ISBN: 0-205-32762-1 *Why We Assess Students -- And How: The Competing Measures of Student Performance* James E. McLean, Robert E. Lockwood Published: 1996 by Corwin Press, Inc. Copyright © 1996 ISBN: 0-8039-6335 *A Practical Guide to Alternative Assessment* Joan L. Herman, Lynn Winters, Pamela R. Aschbacher Published: 1992 by Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development Copyright © 1992 ISBN: 0871201976 *Educative Assessment* Grant Wiggins Published: 1998 by Jossey-Bass Copyright © 1998 ISBN: 0-7879-0848-7
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