Assesment Plan - Final Paper

Final paper for EDU 645- Assessment plan

     Assessment Plan

Demonstrate your understanding of the concepts covered in this course by developing a plan to assess learner performance. This plan should be constructed in your portfolio blog, and should include the following elements:

• Purpose and Learning Outcome: Describe the purpose of your assessment plan. Then, write a learning outcome that supports the purpose you have described.
• Tip: This purpose must involve the learning of some knowledge or skill.
• Tip: Refer back to Chapter 6 of your textbook for information on learning outcomes.
• Assessment Context: Identify a task or a situation in which the learners will be able to demonstrate the knowledge or skills they have gained.
• Holistic Rubric: Create a fully developed holistic rubric for one of the two assessments you designed.
• Tip: You can use Bloom's Taxonomy to adjust the level of cognitive rigor in the assignment. For example, asking learners to “describe” a concept is easier than asking them to “apply” it.
• Testing Constraints: Identify the constraints you will impose on the assessment.
  

Purpose: The purpose of the assessment plan is to make sure that the preschoolers have an understanding of the different months of the year, and to access their knowledge in being able to identify all the twelve months of the year.

Learning outcomes: The preschoolers will be able to demonstrate clearly their knowledge of the months of the year by the the end of the month with 90% accuracy.

Assessment Context: The preschoolers will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of the months of the year by identifying it on the board, reciting it verbally and correctly writing them down.

·         Students will identify the months of the year from the board.

·         Students will individually recite the months of the year to the teacher.

·         Students will correctly write down the months of the year one after the other.

Holistic Rubric:

 

       Level

Remember: Students will have an understanding of how many months are in a year.

Understand: Students will have an understanding of January as the first month of the year.

Apply: Students will apply their knowledge of the months of the year by correctly writing them down.

Testing constraints: Students will learn in advance what information is on the test during the course of study. Students will be given 30minutes for the essay item questions. Students will be allowed to look around the classroom for materials that may give them ideas or hints to the questions. Students will be allowed to ask for help from their teacher.

                              

                   

Rationale for Test Items and Essay Items

My thought process and rationale behind the test items is to let students be able to correctly identify the exact number of days that are in a week, to be able to recite the days of the week in sequence and to be able to write them down in the correct order. And these help the student to know that the beginning of another week actually starts from Sunday.

My rationale behind the essay item is to find out from the student the days of the week that they like most and their reasons for choosing the day and be able to find out what makes each day special to each student.           

                                               References:

Educational Testing and Measurement: Classroom Application and Practice, 9^th Edition Tom Kubiszyn.

3 Measurable Outcomes

THE THREE MEASURABLE LEARNING OUTCOME FOR A HYPOTHETICAL UNIT OF STUDY ARE AS FOLLOWS.

GRADE LEVEL: KINDERGARTEN

FIRST MEASURABLE LEARNING OUTCOME:  Students will correctly identify how many days are in a week. By being 100% accurate.

SECOND MEASURABLE LEARNING OUTCOME: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the days of the week by reciting them one by one in the correct order. With 100% accuracy.

THIRD MEASURABLE LEARNING OUTCOME:  Students will then write down the days of the week one by one in the correct order with 100% accuracy.

TEST ITEM (1) Students will demonstrate their knowledge, by identifying   the number of days that are in a week, and correctly picking the right number from the flash cards i.e. 8, 5, 7, 6, 4, 9.

TEST ITEM (2) Students will demonstrate their abilities to recap by reciting the days of the week that they have listened to on the nursery rhyme cd rom.

TEST ITEM (3) Students will  demonstrate their  knowledge by writing down the days of the week Starting from the first day of the week i.e. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

ESSAY ITEM: Students will write about their favorite day of the week and why this day is particularly special to them.