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• 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)  

  • 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
      • History.
      • Civics.
      • Geography.
      • Economics.

• 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

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