Assessment

Artifact Description:  I created and assigned these ELA quizzes to every student in my second grade class during my student-teaching semester as a morning bell ringer. These daily quizzes were created and assigned through IXL.

IPTS Connection:  This survey connects with the seventh IPTS and knowledge indicator “understands current terminology and procedures necessary for the appropriate analysis and interpretation of assessment data” (7D). The IXL quiz analysis layout is well organized digital tool and easy to follow through to find student performance, student average, and student scores as a percentage score and/or number of questions. My school placement used this as an item analysis throughout various grade levels. In particular, second grade focused on the following author’s purpose, theme, setting and character, text features, and read-along informational texts. As a whole group, I would review the question(s) with the highest incorrect answer.

What I learned: By creating these quizzes, I learned more features on the IXL digital tool as well as planning. Each quiz consisted of five questions, which I selected by level; by the end of the week all students had questions in the highest level. IXL has an availability of level 1, level 2, and level 3 questions to be assigned. I created my own schedule to create and assign the quizzes to all students for the following week every Friday. This helped maintain a routine within the classroom as well, although students saw all five quizzes on their IXL account, students took only one quiz per day as their morning bell ringer. 

Artifact Description:  This digital artifact is a weekly ELA assessment for Unit 5 Week 3. Every Friday students took the weekly assessment which covered the week's skills. Three of the sixteen questions are displayed for this assessment. 

IPTS Connection:  This assessment connects with the seventh IPTS and performance indicator “uses assessment results to determine student performance levels, identify learning targets, select appropriate research-based instructional strategies, and implement instruction to enhance learning outcomes” (7J). Students took an online weekly assessment that focused on phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension skills. Writing prompt questions were integrated throughout selected weeks. Assessment weekly results helped organize data per student. These assessments connected with determining the objectives and reinforcements required for the following week.

What I learned: SAVVAS Realize sync with Google Classroom which helps students locate the assessment in one specific site weekly. With these assessment results I was able to determine what skills students mastered as well as which skills needed to be reviewed. As a whole class, the weekly class average score was determined which motivated students.