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EdPsy490ASA: Issues in Traditional and Alternative Student Assessment

Dr. Sandy Levin

Marty Sierra-Perry • Major Project Stage One

Assessment in My Classroom

Major Project Stage One:Revision American Lit 303: Goals and Objectives

American Lit 303: Syllabus with Standards Analysis of Proposed Assessments

Assessment

Function

Autobiographical Stories

These personalizations help create community in the classroom. In the case of the advanced seniors, they also have an opportunity to show their poetic skills through their silhouette poems. Juniors accomplish this through their "Day You Were Born" PowerPoint. In addition, the juniors show their developing technology proficiency in using PowerPoint.

Discussion: whole class/lit circles

Encourage new ideas, acceptance of divergent thinking, create connections to other experiences, develop critical thinking skills, apply information to new situations. Evaluate the perspectives of self and others. Continues community building. Try different roles.

Project Posters

Students synthesize their research and communicate their findings to a larger audience. Opportunities for all to share their talents: multiple intelligences. Try different roles.

Reading Logs

Provides student with a self-monitoring tool. Student's understanding of a literary/nonfiction work evolves through close reading. Students demonstrate use of reading strategies.

Group Processing Skills

Focus on skills of negotiation, teamwork, goal setting, and problem solving. Students use a rubric to assess their own performance in a group, as well as the participation of other group members. Students share what they learned about themselves as a member of the group.

Transmediations

By taking a work in one form and successfully recasting it into another genre, the student must have a deep understanding of the work.

Maps

These are used to situate the student in setting when applied to literary works, but can also be used to establish prior knowledge of the region or generalizations of people of that region that they bring to text.

Character diaries

Requires the student to empathize with the character, situation or events that move the text forward toward a resolution. Student shows understanding of effect that the milieu has on the text. Why doesn't Hamlet act sooner? Does Desiree have any other choice than walk into the bayou and possible death for herself and child?

Written Essays

Formal and informal writings that demonstrate the students understanding of purpose and audience.

Visual Interpretation of theme in a poem

Student applies Visual Thinking Strategies to communicate an interpretation of a poem.

Dramatizations

Students submit a "Promptbook" that scripts and stages scenes from text. Students create "costumes" for the performance that demonstrate their understanding of the character.

E-Portfolio

Seniors create an e-portfolio that includes a resume, either a college application essay or senior reflection essay, samples of assignments, and reflections on completing each assignment.

Peer Conferencing

Students identify the characteristics of effective writing, and evaluate their own and their peers' performance.

Semester Exhibitions

Students create a project that demonstrates their learning for the semester. Seniors participate in the Literary Dinner Party which while there is a written component, also includes attending the dinner party as one of the characters from one of the works studied over the semester. As the character, the student explores the themes applied during the semester as the character would share them. Students also show that they can plan, organize, research, synthesize, and present their findings in an effective manner. Works cited pages must accompany all research efforts. Assesses speaking and listening goal.

Quizzes/Tests/Worksheets

Short term assessments to determine what needs reteaching or further elaboration.

Book Talks

Seniors select a book from a list of choices, evaluate, criticize and present their opinions to the class. This assesses speaking and listening goal.

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Major Project Stage One:Revision	American Lit 303: Goals and Objectives
American Lit 303: Syllabus with Standards	Analysis of Proposed Assessments

Assessment	Function
Autobiographical Stories	These personalizations help create community in the classroom. In the case of the advanced seniors, they also have an opportunity to show their poetic skills through their silhouette poems. Juniors accomplish this through their "Day You Were Born" PowerPoint. In addition, the juniors show their developing technology proficiency in using PowerPoint.
Discussion: whole class/lit circles	Encourage new ideas, acceptance of divergent thinking, create connections to other experiences, develop critical thinking skills, apply information to new situations. Evaluate the perspectives of self and others. Continues community building. Try different roles.
Project Posters	Students synthesize their research and communicate their findings to a larger audience. Opportunities for all to share their talents: multiple intelligences. Try different roles.
Reading Logs	Provides student with a self-monitoring tool. Student's understanding of a literary/nonfiction work evolves through close reading. Students demonstrate use of reading strategies.
Group Processing Skills	Focus on skills of negotiation, teamwork, goal setting, and problem solving. Students use a rubric to assess their own performance in a group, as well as the participation of other group members. Students share what they learned about themselves as a member of the group.
Transmediations	By taking a work in one form and successfully recasting it into another genre, the student must have a deep understanding of the work.
Maps	These are used to situate the student in setting when applied to literary works, but can also be used to establish prior knowledge of the region or generalizations of people of that region that they bring to text.
Character diaries	Requires the student to empathize with the character, situation or events that move the text forward toward a resolution. Student shows understanding of effect that the milieu has on the text. Why doesn't Hamlet act sooner? Does Desiree have any other choice than walk into the bayou and possible death for herself and child?
Written Essays	Formal and informal writings that demonstrate the students understanding of purpose and audience.
Visual Interpretation of theme in a poem	Student applies Visual Thinking Strategies to communicate an interpretation of a poem.
Dramatizations	Students submit a "Promptbook" that scripts and stages scenes from text. Students create "costumes" for the performance that demonstrate their understanding of the character.
E-Portfolio	Seniors create an e-portfolio that includes a resume, either a college application essay or senior reflection essay, samples of assignments, and reflections on completing each assignment.
Peer Conferencing	Students identify the characteristics of effective writing, and evaluate their own and their peers' performance.
Semester Exhibitions	Students create a project that demonstrates their learning for the semester. Seniors participate in the Literary Dinner Party which while there is a written component, also includes attending the dinner party as one of the characters from one of the works studied over the semester. As the character, the student explores the themes applied during the semester as the character would share them. Students also show that they can plan, organize, research, synthesize, and present their findings in an effective manner. Works cited pages must accompany all research efforts. Assesses speaking and listening goal.
Quizzes/Tests/Worksheets	Short term assessments to determine what needs reteaching or further elaboration.
Book Talks	Seniors select a book from a list of choices, evaluate, criticize and present their opinions to the class. This assesses speaking and listening goal.