Assessment Instruments
Kristi Bell
MTTC 1002 Fall '06

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Formal and Informal Assessement Plan
Objectives
What?
tasks, strategies, instruments
How?
the processes, how often
Why?
how do the selected tools support your learning goals and the learning principals

To enable continuous/frequent feedback between instructor and educator

Observation

Dialogue/Conversations

Ask probing questions

Live chats

Coaching

Email

Observations, dialogue, questioning - Once a week

Chats, email, coaching- Once a week and/or immediately following integrated lessons.

Provides constant feedback during the lesson development process to alleviate issues.

Provides encouragement and support to educators.

To encourage the educators to reflect on their learning progress and achievement

Mentor observations

Personal observations during lessons

Professional Portfolio

Dialogue

Provides feedback on accomplishments.

Promotes peer/colleague collaboration.

To determine your colleague's needs for implementing a system for monitoring the effectiveness of their integration efforts.

Observations

Student's project-based rubric results to gain comprehension level of students.

Daily observations, listening, and questioning

Rubrics completed at the end of lessons.

Ensures effective strategies are being used.

Provides standard means to evaluate learning.

Assessment Strategies
Goals
Sub-Goals (Objectives)
Type of Learning
Assessment Strategy
Feedback Strategy

Target Goal:
(Adult Learners)

The teachers will use a variety of tools and effective instructional strategies to enhance a learner-centered environment.

Search United Streaming database to find relevent videos to support instruction.

Stream and download portions of videos to campus server.

Embed videos in a slideshow

Search quiz database for online quizzes.

Develop a quiz designed using United Streaming web site.

Information Processing
Habits of Mind
Collaboration/Cooperation
Effective Communication

Observation

Questioning

Evaluation Form

Compilation of downloaded videos to campus server

 

Verbal

Peer Feedback

Professional Goal:
(Mentee)

Develop staff training that integrates United Streaming into instruction and is appropriate for diverse adult learners.

Create documentation to guide teachers.

Create slideshow to guide instruction during workshop.

Design varying activities in 15 minute increments to aide ADHD teacher.

Collaboration
Effective Communication

Questioning

Observation during workshop

Evaluation Form

 

Peer Feedback

Written Evaluations

Verbal Comments

 

Professional Goal:
(Mentor)

Effectively implement learning strategies and procedures for adult learning.

Practice mentoring skills

Conduct coaching sessions to facilitate workshop construction with peer mentee.

Prepare and practice varying activities to assist with adult learners attention habits.

Read documentation and articles on adult learning strategies.

Collaboration

Effective Communication

Habits of Mind

Self-portfolio

Journal

Verbal Comments

Teacher Feedback

Mentee Feedback

Evaluation Forms

Rubric

This rubric will be used to assess knowledge gained during a workshop on how to effectively use United Streaming resources.

Learning Goals:

1. Research and share findings of videos and quizzes relevant to specific content areas.
2. Collaborate on how to implement videos and quizzes.

Learning Objectives:

1. Use appropriate database search techniques to locate videos and quizzes relevant to curriculum.
2. Contribute to campus database by downloading 3 curriculum related video segments.
3. Create a slide show to guide instruction for students which includes at least one embedded video segment.

Teacher:

Date:
Title: United Streaming Workshop
CATEGORY 4 3 2 1
Score
Research Downloaded 3 video segments to the correct folder on the campus server. Downloaded 3 video segments to the incorrect folder on the campus server. Downloaded 1 or 2 video segments to the correct folder on the campus server. Did not download any video segments to the campus server.  
Content Created an instructional slideshow containing a least one embedded video from United Streaming. Created an instructional slideshow containing no embedded video from United Streaming. Did not create an instructional slideshow.    
Mechanics No misspellings or grammatical errors. Three or fewer misspellings and/or mechanical errors. Four misspellings and/or grammatical errors. More than 4 errors in spelling or grammar.  
Organization Content is well organized using headings or bulleted lists to group related material. Uses headings or bulleted lists to organize, but the overall organization of topics appears flawed. Content is logically organized for the most part. There was no clear or logical organizational structure, just lots of facts.  
Copyright Fair use guidelines are followed with clear, easy-to-locate and accurate citations. Fair use guidelines are followed with clear, easy-to-locate and accurate citations for almost all material. Fair use guidelines are followed with clear, easy-to-locate and accurate citations for some of the material. Fair use guidelines are not followed and project is missing citations for material.  
Attractiveness Makes excellent use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance the presentation. Makes good use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance to presentation. Makes use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. but occasionally these detract from the presentation content. Use of font, color, graphics, effects etc. but these often distract from the presenation content.  
        Total Points  

Rubric created using:
RubiStar ( http://rubistar.4teachers.org )