assessmentevaluation

ASSESSMENT & EVALUATION

Teachers apply technology to facilitate a variety of effective assessment and evaluation strategies.

SAMPLE LESSON PLAN
3rd Grade Writing Standard
using "Essential Question" Format

SAMPLE MULTIPLE MEASURES CLASS SCORES
(using district multiple measures in language arts)

SPREADSHEET SAMPLE
(using STAR test results)

SAMPLE QUERY RUN BY ONLINE ASSESSMENT REPORTING SYSTEM (OARS©)
(using district and state multiple measures in language arts)

SAMPLE GRADEBOOK SCREENSHOT
(using multiple measures in math)

SANTA MARIA-BONITA SCHOOL DISTRICT
MONITORING & ASSESSMENT WEBPAGE
(Communication to Administrators, Teachers, and Clerical Staff)

Reflection

   More and more we are gaining opportunities to look a data in immediate, specific and, consequently, more helpful ways. An individual practitioner can look at data for his or her whole class or on a specific student. My school can look at it for trends by class, or as a site. My district can do this for any of our 19 schools, or as a whole district. I have a new job this year, in which I am assisting our district, sites and individual teachers to gather and make sense of assessment results. Because of our growing ability to access results quickly, the potential for using it diagnostically has improved dramatically. The artifacts above were chosen because they represent the ways in which we can use technology to help us teach and look at the information we have on our students.
   The first is a lesson plan that requires that the student use a Word-created rubric to self-assess a letter-writing assignment after having completed a Social Studies unit. (This unit included a Powerpoint presentation on Native American Chumash culture and primary sources, as well as a field trip where Chumash daily life was demonstrated.)
    The next four are different ways of looking at test results in math and language arts. I used spreadsheets and tables to create reports or gradesheets for reporting, grading or comparison purposes in these samples.
     The final link is that to the webpage I created for our district about assessment and reporting requirements and options. There are pages for administrators, teachers and clerical staff, and I have gotten positive feedback about the information they are able to gather there. My goal with this site was to streamline communication, clarify information, and simplify what can feel like cumbersome processes in our current assessment-heavy times, while trying to maintain a human element through it all. The numbers are attached to people, after all.
   My greatest hope, however, is that as we continue to get better at looking at data in helpful ways, we will also find ways to better quantify measures that are not so easily quantifiable as multiple choice, paper pencil assessments, so that we can more accurately ascertain strengths and growth in ALL of our students.