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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 groupStart 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 groupAnswer 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
- PDE SAS section on Project-Based Assessment (used to be labeled "Fair Assessment"). None of these are for social studies, but check out the ones on Literature. The "Follow, Follow, Follow" assessment has a particular resonance for today....
- NAEP Questions Toolkit – all of the "Big Four" social studies disciplines get their own assessments! Grades 4, 8, and 12
- NAEP reports, if you want to see how these things have played out over time – for example, how did students fare on the 2010 vs.
- NAEP Questions Toolkit.
- 2014 assessments?
- 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
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)