Assessment Design

[WLO: 2] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Over the last five weeks, your assignments have been preparing you for this Final Paper. As you compile this paper from your previous assignments, you will realize that what you have been doing is a reflection of backward design planning.

To prepare for this assignment,

• Review your instructor’s feedback on all assignments from Weeks 1 through 4. Read the summative comments within Waypoint as well as all other comments. Often times instructors will leave embedded comments directly in your paper. As you work through each component of this assignment, make any corrections or revisions recommended by your instructor.
• Review and use the Week 6 Assessment Design Final Paper Template Summative Assessment Template.
• Research for at least two scholarly sources (Links to an external site.) that will support your analysis within your paper.

Content Instructions

Use the following outline as you structure and complete your Assessment Design Final Paper:

• Standard and Learning Objective
  • List your selected pathway from Week 1, the standard, and learning objectives.
• Formative Assessment
  • First, describe the importance of formative assessment. What is it? Why should formative assessments be part of every lesson plan? How should they be used? This is where you should include evidence from your readings to support your description.
  • Second, based on your Week 2 assignment and any necessary revisions, explain the three different ways you plan to formatively assess learners based on the standard and learning objective you selected. Be sure that at least one of your formative assessments utilize technology. Describe how these formative assessments are aligned with your standard and learning objectives.
• Development of Summative Assessment
  • In Week 3, you created a test blueprint that captures the different types of questions you will ask that are aligned to at least three different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Make any necessary revisions based on instructor’s feedback and then insert your test blueprint.
  • Then, list your 10 questions that you developed in Week 3 making any necessary revisions based on your instructor’s feedback. Your 10 test questions must include the following:
    • Each question should include the learning objective it is aligned to as well as the level of Bloom’s Taxonomy the question addresses.
    • List the type of question it is (selected-response, constructed, or performance)
    • You must include at least 6 selected response questions, 3 constructed questions and 1 performance-based question.
• Development of Rubric for Performance Assessment
  • In Week 3, you developed a rubric for the performance-based assessment that you created for your summative assessment. Review the instructor’s feedback, make any necessary revisions and then include the rubric here.
• Analysis of Data and Interpretation
  • In Week 4, review your instructor’s feedback based on how you analyzed your data. Make any necessary revisions and include the entire assignment except for the conclusion.
• Reflection
  • In Chapter 11.1 of your text, Lefrançois (2014) discusses various grading systems. One such method to help learners become self-regulated is to engage them in self-assessments. You will perform your own self-assessment of your final project by completing the following:
    • Access the rubric for your final project.
    • Review the rubric and assess your level of proficiency for each criterion.
    • List the criteria, the proficiency level you think you performed, and your rationale. Consider using a table to complete this task.
    • After reviewing the rubric and self-assessing your work, was there anything that you changed in your assignment? If so, what was it and why?
    • Then briefly discuss the benefits of having learners self-assess their own work. Provide evidence from your readings or outside sources to support your response.

Written Communication Instructions

Your Assessment Design Final Paper

• Must be eight to 10 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper. For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources
• Must use proper syntax and mechanics. Your writing should display meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar.
• Must use at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed, or credible sources that were published within the last five to eight years in addition to the course text. Consider using the Ashford University Library to help you find these sources. Exemplary assignments will include at least one more source in addition to the required scholarly source and the course text. Refer to Integrating Research (Links to an external site.) for assistance
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table (Links to an external site.) offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) guide.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.) for specifications.

Week 6: Summative Assessment

Your Name

EDU 645: Assessment for Learning

Instructor’s Name

Date

 

Hint: To complete this assignment, review your instructor’s feedback on your Week 1-5 assignments, making necessary revisions.

 

 

Hint: Delete all of these green boxes before submitting the paper to your instructor. To delete the boxes: click on the edge of each box and press delete.

 

Summative Assessment

In this section, write a brief introduction to your paper that will allow the reader to follow the organization of your paper and the focus of your discussion. Discuss the idea and process of the backward design model when developing assessments.

 

Hint: Ctrl + Click INTRODUCTIONS & CONCLUSIONS for help

 

 

Standard and Learning Objective

List your selected pathway from Week 1, the standards, and learning objectives.

Formative Assessment

Describe the importance of a formative assessment. Explain what a formative assessment is. Explain why formative assessments should be part of every lesson plan. Discuss how they should be used. Write one or more developed paragraphs, including any supporting research.

Based on your Week 2 assignment and any necessary revisions, explain three ways that you expect to formally assess learners based on the standard and learning objective that you selected. Be sure that at least one of your formative assessments utilizes technology. Describe how these formative assessments are aligned with your standards and learning objectives.

Hint: Use evidence from your readings to support your ideas in the above section.

Ctrl + Click QUOTING, PARAPHRASING, & SUMMARIZING for help

 

 

 

Hint: Ctrl + Click INTEGRATING RESEARCH For help.

Hint: Ctrl + Click CITING WITHIN YOUR PAPER for help.

 

 

 

 

 

Development of Summative Assessment

Insert the test blueprint table that you created in Week 3 here. This blueprint should list the three different learning objectives you created in Week 1 aligned with at least three different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Be sure to revise your blueprint based on your instructor’s feedback.

List your ten questions that you developed in Week 3, making any necessary revisions based on your instructor’s feedback. Your 10 test questions must include the following:

· Each question should include the learning objective it is aligned to as well as the level of Bloom’s Taxonomy the question addresses.

· List the type of question it is (selected-response, constructed, or performance)

· Include at least 6 selected response questions, 3 constructed questions and 1 performance-based question.

Development of Rubric for Performance Assessment

In Week 3 you developed a rubric for the performance-based assessment that you created for your summative assessment. Review the instructor’s feedback, make any necessary revisions and then include the rubric here.

Analysis of Data Interpretation

Review the data analysis assignment you created in Week 4. Revise this assignment based on your instructor’s feedback and include that part here. Insert your introduction here.

Mean, Median and Mode

Insert your content for the above heading here.

Educational Assessment

Insert your content for the above heading here.

Applying the Data

Insert your content for the above heading here.

 

Interpreting the Mean, Median and Mode

Insert your content for the above heading here.

 

 

Hint: Ctrl + Click Analysis Tutorial for help.

 

 

 

Reflection

Review Chapter 11.1 of your textbook, in which LeFrancois (2014) discusses various grading systems, particularly the method to help learners become self-regulated learners by engaging them in their own assessment. You will perform your own self-assessment of your final project by completing the following:

· Access the rubric for your final project.

· Review the rubric and assess your level of proficiency for each criterion.

· List the criteria, the proficiency level you think you performed and your rationale.

· After reviewing the rubric and self-assessing your work, discuss anything that you changed in your assignment. If you changed something, explain what it was and why.

**Here is a table you might want to consider using to complete the self-assessment:

Criteria	Proficiency Level	Rationale
Standard and Learning Objective
Formative Assessment
Development of Summative Assessment
Development of Rubric for Performance Assessment
Analysis of Data and Interpretation
Reflection
Intro, Thesis & Conclusion
Written Communication: Control of Syntax and Mechanics
Written Communication: APA Formatting
Written Communication: Page Requirement
Written Communication: Resource Requirement

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· Briefly discuss the benefits of having learners self-assess their work. Provide evidence from your readings or outside sources to support your response.

 

 

Conclusion

Briefly summarize the ideas that you discussed in your presentation, persuading the audience of the significance of these ideas.

Hint: Ctrl + Click INTRODUCTIONS & CONCLUSIONS for help.

 

 

 

 

References

Template for an APA Academic Journal reference entry:

 

 

 

Author’s Last Name, Initials. (Year Published). Article title. Journal Name, Volume #(Issue #),

page range. doi: or Retrieved from http:// (journal’s homepage)

 

Template for an APA Online Magazine or Newspaper reference: entry:

 

 

Author’s Last Name, Initials. (Year Published, Month Day). Article or Newspaper title. Magazine or Newspaper Title. Retrieved from http://

Template for an APA Webpage (with a Person as Author) reference entry:

 

 

Author’s Last Name, Initials. (Year Published). Webpage title. Website Title. Retrieved from

http:// (website’s homepage)

Template for an APA Webpage (with Corporate/Government Author) reference entry:

 

Title of Organization. (Year Published). Webpage title. Retrieved from http://

Use APA format to cite and reference at least two scholarly sources on your References page. Remember, you MUST include in-text citations throughout your paper to show your reader what information you used from these outside sources.

 

Hint: Ctrl + Click FORMATTING YOUR REFERENCES LIST for further help.

 

 

*In the final version of your assignment, be sure that you have removed all the hints (green boxes) within the template.