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- Reading
- Hammond & Manfra, 2009 (at long last!)
- Assignments
- WTL: Civics ed, give three lesson ideas (one G, one P, one M) on a topic
- Complete and turn in your CURRICULUM MAP – see templates, sample in CourseSite!
Session 8 - Wednesday, 18 Mar
Before class
- Complete reading
- Do microteaching sign-up
- Complete WTL
- Complete and turn in your curriculum map
During class (ppt)
- Conceptual work: Assessment & social studies
- Generic purposes & assumptions of assessment: sequestered, individual tasks; assessment OF learning vs. assessment FOR learning; accountability / the 'bottom line' vs. the challenges of failure (or being passed along)
- Reviewing things you (may?) already know – formative v. summative, etc.
- Assessment in the context of social studies: What's the bottom line, again? Significance of schema, level of non-information in traditional assessments.
- Examination of the work of Sam Wineburg, Gabriel Reich. Test items as text: compare primary source heuristics & test-wiseness
- Examples of non-traditional assessment: Quick look back at example of a digital documentary. (This was made using PrimaryAccess.) Other tools: Glogster, Prezi, good ol' powerpoint (albeit perhaps used non-traditionally), a discussion board, etc.
- Essay group
- Start with the Free Response Question. Individually examine the question and the images, then individually outline an answer. Then read the sample student response and score it with a rubric. Discuss your scoring.
- Move to the Document-Based Question. Examine the question and the documents, but skip writing your own answer. Examine the rubric, then look at the sample student response. Score it individually, then discuss.
- Collaborative test-taking group
- Answer the first ten questions on your own.
- Answer the second ten questions on your own; then stop and discuss them. Note places where you changed your answers and provide an explanation of why.
- Answer the last ten questions on your own. Then use a computer to explore these questions further. Change your answers as needed, and document your changes (i.e., provide new answer, explain your new understanding, and provide links to relevant sites)
- Essay group
Assessment resources: see course bookmarks for full listing
- PDE SAS section on "Fair Assessment".
- NAEP Questions Toolkit.
- Example of publisher items.
- NAEP reports – see framework, perhaps draw inspiration from it
Closure: Don't forget that you will be assessed, too! Taking a look at the Praxis.
- ETS info on their version of the Social Studies Praxis 2.
- Other info that addresses same/similar content as the Social Studies Praxis 2
After class
- Reading: Chapin, Ch. 5; Reich, 2009
- Review NAEP & Praxis links (above)
- Work on remaining assignments! HTCE, unit (recognizing that you can only tackle the first step at this point)