Assessment Plan for Family History Unit by Allison Weingarden

Assessment

Teacher rotation

Type Informal Formative

Objectives

Data

Purpose

Action Plan

1, 2, & 3

Data collected will include abilities to investigate and think about their family histories, abilities to use the worksheet as a pre-writing for writing their narratives, abilities to write their narratives, abilities to illustrate their narratives, abilities to put their narratives into logical order, and abilities to prepare to present their narratives to the class (practice reading them aloud).

All three objectives will be assessment in an informal, formative way as I rotate around the room while students work. This includes:

Family history worksheet

Formal Formative

Data collected will include successful completion of the family history worksheet, as well as evidence of investigation into the

If a student is struggling with any of the concepts measured by this informal type of assessment, then I will During completing the worksheet guide the student During writing narratives toward successful During illustrating narratives completion of each During putting narratives into logical objective through order modeling and guided practice. If a student is As I rotate, I will be able to assess excelling at any of informally and formatively where each these skills, then I will student is in terms of progress toward offer suggestions for meeting each objective. I will be able to how the student can add use this information formatively in order to to the assignments or determine when students are ready to move further his or her on. Students must also get each item individual learning and checked by me or another teacher before accomplishments. moving on to another step (i.e. writing and order of pages must be approved before moving onto illustrations). These checkpoints allow me to informally and formatively assess each student. A students success on this assessment If a student does not shows evidence of investigation into his or complete the worksheet her family history and preparation to (or scores low), then I achieve objectives 2 and 3. I know by will sit with him or her scoring each childs worksheet whether or and use what I know not that student is ready to move on to the about his or her family next steps, because I know by that score (I know my students

students family history.

Narrative family history book

Formal Summative

1&2

Presentation

Informal Summative

and their families well) to help complete as much of the worksheet as possible. Data collected will A students success on this assessment If a student scores low include ability to indicates proficiency in the first two on this assessment, then create a narrative from objectives. Including at least five pages in I will sit with that the worksheet (using it the book allows for a clear beginning and student to help him or as a guide), and ability end to the narrative with at least three her to fix any mistakes to write and illustrate a details in the middle. Including at least one or errors. I may model narrative that complete sentence and one detailed the assignment again expresses his or her illustration on each page which detail and for the student and have thoughts, feelings, and clarify the students ideas, thoughts, and/or him or her help me first ideas clearly and in a feeling indicates proficiency in the second to do my book, in order logical order. objective. Having the books pages in to provide additional logical order demonstrates proficiency in guided practice. taking the information found from the investigation and turning it into a narrative (which is stated in the first standard and included in the second objective). Including all or most of the details from the Family History worksheet indicates that investigation into the family history has taken place and been processed by the student (first objective). Data collected will This takes place in the form of the If a student is not include ability to students presentations. I will informally successful, then I will speak to the class, assess whether each student is describing prompt the student with expressing thoughts, (through reading his or her book aloud) his questions in order to feelings, and ideas as or her thoughts and feelings about the help get him or her they are written in the topic. This addresses objective 3. back on track. book.

whether or not objective 1 has been achieved and progress has been made toward objectives 2 and 3.