1f: Designing Student Assessments

All the instructional outcomes may be assessed by the proposed assessment plan, with clear criteria for assessing student work. The plan contains evidence of student contribution to its development. Assessment methodologies have been adapted for individual students as the need has arisen. The approach to using formative assessment is well designed and includes student as well as teacher use of the assessment information.

Danielson, C., 2013

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One example of creating a formal student assessment was in my Senior Practicum. During this time, I taught an entire writing unit on informative text. Based on the informative writing standard from the State Department of Education of Idaho, I created a rubric by which students writing would be graded. Since writing is produced by the students, this assessment form was strictly created by me in the form of a rubric to properly measure student achievement of the standard. The image to the left is the rubric created with different sections. Each section addresses the different parts of the standard. This ensures that each expectation of the students is aligned with the standard. The image to the right is a student friendly version of the same standard. This is given to the students so that they understand what is expected of them when creating their informative text.

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