EdPsy490ASA: Issues in Traditional and Alternative Student Assessment Dr. Sandy Levin Marty Sierra-Perry • Major Project Stage Two Assessment in My Classroom

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

Revision of Stage One:

Assessment	Function	Type of Assessment
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.	Maximum Performance
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.	Typical Performance
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.	Complex-Performance Assessment
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.	Formative
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.	Formative
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.	Complex-Performance Assessment
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.	Diagnostic
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?	Complex-Performance Assessment
Written Essays	Formal and informal writings that demonstrate the students understanding of purpose and audience.	Complex-Performance Assessment
Visual Interpretation of theme in a poem	Student applies Visual Thinking Strategies to communicate an interpretation of a poem.	Complex-Performance Assessment
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.	Complex-Performance Assessment
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.	Complex-Performance Assessment/Summative
Peer Conferencing	Students identify the characteristics of effective writing, and evaluate their own and their peers' performance.	Typical 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.	Complex-Performance Assessment
Quizzes/Tests/Worksheets	Short term assessments to determine what needs reteaching or further elaboration.	Placement/Diagnostic/Formative
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.	Complex-Performance Assessment

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