Final Assessment Project

I’m stuck on a English question and need an explanation.

Final Assessment Project

The Assessment Project is designed to provide you with the opportunity to use student data to inform your instruction as this practice is critical to successful teaching. Adding this practice to your repertoire of teaching skills will enable you to interpret data meaningfully and to use it in your decision making about priorities in your planning, in your assessment, and in your monitoring of student progress.

Although this final document is not due until the last week of the semester, understanding the project and beginning early will help you to succeed with it. Your assessment project will involve several steps which will range from planning to pre testing to implementing lessons to post testing and reflection. The following is a more detailed outline of the tasks for the Assessment Project.

Planning: What are your first steps?

• Identify a classroom in your content area that you will focus on.
• If you are not teaching, find a teacher you can collaborate with who is interested in addressing a particular deficiency
• Determine the pre and post-assessment measure(s) you will use to identify the deficiency that will be the focus of your assessment project.

Data Collection and Analysis:

• Give students the pre assessment measure
• Analyze the data from the pre-assessment measure
• Determine areas of deficiency(ies)
• Design 2-3 lesson plans that address the specific deficiency (deficiencies).
• Full lesson plans can be included in an appendix—the text of your paper can talk generally/summarize the lesson.

Implementation:

• Teach the 2-3 lessons that address the deficiency
• Reflect on each lesson (while the lesson is being taught) in terms of how student learning/progress was assessed and what evidence was gathered to document learning and mastery.

Post test/Reflection:

• Administer post test
• Visually display the pre and post test data for comparison (e.g., table or chart).
• Explain how you analyzed student learning and how the assessment results were used to inform instruction.
• Conclusions, final reflection (what worked, what didn’t work, what might you do differently)

Assignment Guidelines:

This document should be somewhere in the range of 5-7 pages of written work with full lesson plans included in the appendices (the appendices do not count towards the 5-7pages of written analysis/description). Additional work such as copies of the pre and post-test should also be included in the appendices. This should be a doubled spaced document written in 12 point font, adhering to APA style, and should include a title page and a references section.

Example chart:

I am here to help with any questions or concerns!