IPTS 8-Assessment
The competent teacher understands various formal and informal assessment strategies and uses them to support the continuous development of all students.
The competent teacher understands various formal and informal assessment strategies and uses them to support the continuous development of all students.
*8E. The competent teacher understands how to select, construct, and use assessment strategies and instruments for diagnosis.
Artifact: This is a rubric I constructed in order to assess a journal-writing assignment.
Artifact: This is a rubric I constructed in order to assess a journal-writing assignment.
Reflection
It was pretty simple to create a rubric and I think, for this kind of assignment, highly effective for assessment purposes. I would definitely create and use rubrics again in the future, however what I will do differently next time is distribute the rubric to the class at the same time that I am explaining the assignment. Although I told the class the specific parameters for getting full credit, I'm sure the oral instructions and expectations went in one ear and out the other of some students. I realized this when I got a lot of incomplete journals returned to me the following week. I decided against deducting points, unless they flat out didn't write anything or only wrote one sentence per entry, because I felt I was the one in error for not providing them with a copy of the rubric. If everyone has a copy of the expectations, then there are no surprises when they get their graded assignments returned to them.
It was pretty simple to create a rubric and I think, for this kind of assignment, highly effective for assessment purposes. I would definitely create and use rubrics again in the future, however what I will do differently next time is distribute the rubric to the class at the same time that I am explaining the assignment. Although I told the class the specific parameters for getting full credit, I'm sure the oral instructions and expectations went in one ear and out the other of some students. I realized this when I got a lot of incomplete journals returned to me the following week. I decided against deducting points, unless they flat out didn't write anything or only wrote one sentence per entry, because I felt I was the one in error for not providing them with a copy of the rubric. If everyone has a copy of the expectations, then there are no surprises when they get their graded assignments returned to them.