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During class (ppt)

• Current events: Citizen heroes for our time? Bioethics Lessons From Three of the Early Heroes of Coronavirus Pandemic
• 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

    • 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. 2014 assessments? 
    • Example of publisher items.

• 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.

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