EvalAsses

=Welcome!=

This page will contain my musings on Assessment and Evaluation including some ideas of how we can better meet the ideals and philosophy behind the new curriculum.

One of the key components of evaluation within the new curriculum is the shift towards evaluation that reflects mastery of curriculum objectives. Within this realm, the grade reported to parents is based on the mastery of the Overall Expectations (within which the Specific Expectations tie in). With this in mind, I'm exploring changing my teaching practice to reflect this. My goal is to evaluate student work and record it as a reflection of the mastery of an Overall Expectation.

To give you an idea of what I'm thinking about, here ([|Heat test cat.pdf)] is a test that was written with the philosophy of evaluating based on the KICA categories (Knowledge, Inquiry, Communication and Application).

In my new evaluation strategy, this same test would look as follows: [|Heat test exp.pdf]

There isn't a lot of difference in how I've organized the questions. The key to this however is how I record it in my grade book. Inside my grade book, I record these marks based on the Overall Expectations. Now, when someone asks how a student is doing, I can narrow in on where they are struggling as it relates to the curriculum, rather than before where the best I could explain was their difficulty in understanding Inquiry based questions or knowledge based questions.

As I said, it's still a work in progress and I'll have to continue to refine it as I go! :)