Kurt Hoelsema Assessment Plan

Assessment Plan
Throughout this unit plan, pre-assessment, formative assessment for learning, formative

assessment as learning, and summative assessment will be used. Each lesson will incorporate at

least two of these. The goal of these assessments is to maximize students learning from both

informing the teacher of how much students are understanding and through forming and

summing the learning of students. It is the goal that students receive feedback on their learning

and knowledge throughout the course of this unit.

Pre-Assessment: This unit uses pre-assessments so that the teacher may get a feel for what

students know to begin a lesson and what students are remembering from prior lessons. Pre-

assessments are also a good way for students to know where they are at and since they are done

at the beginning of class, it is a good way for students to warm up and begin thinking more

mathematically.

Formative Assessment (for learning): Formative assessments are so important in this unit.

Since this unit is designed prior to teaching, there are many assumptions about what students

know and how they learn. Through various engaging activities and the use of Desmos software

the teacher is able to get a good grasp of what students are learning and then has the opportunity

to adjust teaching accordingly.

Formative Assessment (as learning): Formative assessments as learning take a variety of forms

in this unit. Notes, class discussions, small group discussions, homework, a project, and Desmos

activities are some examples. This gives students a wide variety of ways to learn and to engage

with the material and concepts presented in this chapter. One of the most important parts of

formative assessments is feedback. In this unit students are able to easily see if they are

understanding the concepts or not. Activities that are done in class are gone over. Take home
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work is either through online software that gives students immediate results and specialized

practice or through written homework that is returned to students promptly. The more students

are involved in learning, the more that they will learn. Consequently this unit is designed to get

students as involved in the concepts and material as possible.

Summative Assessment: Summative assessment in this unit takes the form of homework for

each lesson, a final test, and a final project. While each of these is summative, they are also

designed so that students learn while doing them (homework and project) or learn while

preparing for them (test/quizzes). One quiz is given after the first three lessons (5.1-5.3) and a

second quiz is given after the last two lessons (5.4-5.5). The homework determines whether

students are understanding the concepts and determining whether they are able to apply those

concepts. These two quizzes give the teacher knowledge of where students are struggling so that

on review day those areas can be focused on. The quizzes also give the students knowledge of

what they do know and what they do not know and are useful for students to organize the

information they have learned as they study. The project will determine how much students have

grasped the broader concepts of this unit. The final test will determine how well students

understand and are able to apply the more technical aspects of this unit.