Assessment+Resources

**Seattle University - Master in Program**
This site supports the assessment strand of this course, TEED 5022. I will place files and useful links here as we work our way through the quarter.

Here is a document that provides an overview, summary of the reading assignments, and session-specific learning targets for sessions throughout the entire assessment strand:

Here are some likely session-specific resources:


 * 9 January 2018**


 * 12 January 2018**


 * 16 January 2018**


 * 30 January 2018**


 * 2 February 2018 (morning)**


 * 2 February 2018 (afternoon)**

Jigsaw Presentations Happen Today
 * 6 February 2018**

Here is the encyclopedia article: Please read it and come to class prepared to respond to the given focus questions.
 * 12 February 2018**



Here is a link to the OSPI web page on CBAs (Classroom-Based Assessments): [] Scroll down to "High School" and, under "Civics" > "Checks and Balances," click on "[|Assessment]"

Note: To access the Greenwood article, you can use the SU library ( [] ). Use "Primo" to search for "Mathematical Power and Mathematical Thinking Greenwood." (Click "Availability," and use JSTOR)
 * 6 March 2018**








 * 9 March 2018**









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 * Here is an article asserting a link between cognitive and emotional aspects of learning.**
 * Consider disposition targets in this light. "[|Emotions help steers students' thinking, scholar finds]."**



Optional: Here is a link to the piece by Hugh Burkhardt, "[|Engineering Good Math Tests]

Here is a video that sets up a simple (perhaps simplistic) rationale for Standards-Based Grading []

Here's the NY Times Nov '15 story about the [|NAEP scores decline]

Here is a link to a 5 March 2015 Seattle Times article about the Seattle School Board's consideration of a proposal to suspend use of new "Smarter Balanced" tests: []

Here is a link to a 27 Feb 2015 Seattle Times article about Nathan Hale HS's decision to boycott "Smarter Balanced" tests for its 11th graders: []

Here is a link to a "Hot Topics" sheet put out by OSPI regarding "Smarter Balanced" testing and its implementation in Washington schools: []

[|Here is a link] to the Fall-Winter 2010 edition (vol 16 No 1) of Education Northwest Magazine. Go to page 35 and you will find the Research Brief, "__Why students decide to drop out: Identifying Institutional Characteristics__" by Basha Krasnoff.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Here's a webpage that will allow you to access sample test items from the **S**marter **B**alanced **A**ssessment **C**onsortium (SBAC) standardized tests for common core standards: [] Go there and skim the text on the page, then click on "Go to the tests," sign in as a guest and try taking one of the sample training tests.

Be ready to respond to these questions: a.) Which of Stiggins' four assessment methods are being used? b.) What is being tested? c.) Based on these items (a very limited sample, to be sure) what is the __purpose__ of this assessment? d.) Who, if anyone, is favored by the structure and content of the test?

on a related note, here is an NPR piece about trouble in Tennessee with computer-based testing:

[|The State That Pulled The Plug On Computer Testing]
February 20, 2016 7:00 AM ET


 * More resources:**

[|**ThemeSpark**] []
 * Web-based rating scale generators:**


 * [|PBL Checklists]** []


 * [|Rubistar]** []


 * [|iRubric]** []

Article: "[|PISA: It's Poverty Not Stupid]"
=[|Don't Prevent Students' Mistakes, Prepare for Them]= In Education Week, by David Ginsburg on January 2, 2012

And, because everyone needs this: []

OSPI: []
 * Links**