Assessment Instruments

What

How

Why

Tasks

Strategies

Instruments

The processes…

How often?      

How do the selected tools support the learning goals and the learning principles guiding your design?

Feedback:

To enable continuous and/or frequent feedback between mentor and the students and mentee

Checklist

Probing question

Observation

Daily

Written record of progress with notation of anecdotal response to probing questions

Provide running record of interaction and learning to evaluate later and use for formative assessment

Reflection:

To encourage the students and mentee to reflect on their learning progress and achievement

Reflective comment sheet

Weekly

What I did today and what I thought about it

Student or mentee reflection used to evaluate lesson content and delivery as well as assess affective domain for formative planning

Free writing journal entry

Students choose topic to describe, explain, or illustrate

Respond with a short written answer to a posed question to include:

·         Peer Evaluation

·         Concept explanation

·         Process synthesis

·         Application

Focus the daily writing on a skill or detail in today’s work or reflect on cumulative work

Glimpse into

·  Cognitive processing

·  Vocabulary comprehension

·  Process comprehension

·  Formative purpose

·  Degree of skill mastery

Learning Progress:

To determine mentor’s students’ and mentee’s learning progress and achievement

Checklists

Ongoing

Visible indicator of skill practice or objective completed

Formal Assessment

Complete identified skillset, assess for growth and mastery

Formative benchmark assessment to add to portfolio

Probing questions

Daily

Combine with other data for formative purposes

Rubric

Provided at the beginning of the lesson for student information

Scored at the end of the project to establish mastery of identified goals