Forms of assessment | Skills and outcomes | Congruent pedagogical approach |
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Multiple choice, true/false, fill-in the blank, etc. | Recall, recognition, or ability to reason one's way to the expected answer | Deliver information to students, emphasize that there are single right answers |
Prescribed essays | Test student ability to select, synthesize, organize, and articulate their understandign of a relatively bounded body of knowledge in written form | Offer students regular opportunities to answer focused questions both inside and outside of class. |
Open-ended essays | Select, synthesize, organize, make connections among, and analayze bodies of knowledge in written form | Offer students regular opportunities to write critically and reflectively both inside and outside of class. |
Oral reports | Select, synthesize, organize, and articulate their understanding in oral form | Integrate into lesson plans opportunities for students to talk in class (in groups, in large discussion, in informal presentations of points or ideas) |
Exhibitions | Select, research, synthesize, organize, and articulate their understanding of a large body of knowledge in oral and written form | Offer students regular opportunities to research, write critically and reflectively, and present their work |
Progressive reporting | Assess where student is and where s/he needs to go | Invite student input and/or choice in activities or plans |
Interactive exploration | Work with other students and/or a variety of materials to design and create something | Give students opportunities to work together and create original products |
Portfolio | Give students opportunity to select, organize, reflect on, and present their understanding in an ongoing as well as summative form | Offer students regular opportunities to step back from their work, select representative pieces to rework and/or reflect on |
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Oral interviews | Listening skills, process auditory information | Have students engage in conversation, put material into use |
Build web page | Adds technology piece | Need additional technology experience |
Video production | Script, engage actors, editing, performance | additional technology experience |
Disciplinary group | Pedagogical approach for desired skill | Congruent form of assessment |
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Social studies | Taking a trip in center city, oral history, giving new experience of world, logistical problems | Oral reports |
Languages | More variety in practive, more than repitition | Oral interview |
English | Imparting information vs acquiring skills, different teacher styles elicit different skills, remember teacher diversity a good thing | Assessment needs to vary with style/stage of exploration, try to make variation explicit |
Theology | How to present materials related to "religious life styles", worked with languages, focus on historical relevant figures, present in video life in context, and create liturgy | Compare across videos, with free lunch for week to best |
Mathematics | Go out and explore interesting institution | Alternative assessment: discuss 500 word essay on interesting institution; have students to create math pretests on web |
Science | Science not body of knowledge but rather product of individuals asking questions, doing experiments. Ask students to define unanswered question, do proposed investigation, submit results/conclusions/extensions | Assessment ongoing and cumulative. |