Dr. Shirley Weaver

Assessment◦ Assessment rubrics◦ Bloom’s Taxonomy -- Assessing lower &

higher levels◦ Should ELL students have a separate

assessment?◦ How might classroom management play

a role in effective assessment?

A rubric is an authentic assessment tool used to measure students' work. It is a scoring guide that seeks to evaluate a student's performance based on the sum of a full range of criteria rather than a single numerical score. A rubric is a working guide for students and teachers, usually handed out before the assignment begins in order to get students to think about the criteria on which their work will be judged.

◦http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

◦http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/

◦http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/assess.html

Determine the concepts to be taught. What are the essential learning objectives?

Choose the criteria to be evaluated. Name the evidence to be produced.

Develop a grid. Plug in the concepts and criteria.

Share the rubric with students before they begin writing.

Evaluate the end product. Compare individual students' work with the rubric to determine whether they have mastered the content.

Authentically assess student performance on a project

Improve products and increase learning Force the teacher to specify the criteria Promote student awareness of the criteria Reduce the amount of time teachers spend

evaluating Easy to use and explain

What else?

The taxonomy follows the thinking process. You can not understand a concept if you do not first remember it, similarly you can not apply knowledge and concepts if you do not understand them.

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/Dalton.htm

◦ Do you think that you should create different assessments for your ELL students? Why or why not?

◦How might classroom management play a role in effective assessment?

Now is the time to ask questions about the content of the seminar or anything else about this class.