Assessment & Objective Formulas

Assessment

What can be assessed?

• Readiness. Do students already know some concepts? What prior knowledge do they have? What skills do they have? This is why pre-assessment is important. 
• Students' Interest. What students like outside of class. Knowing their interests will help us engage them. 
• Learning Profile. Areas of strength and weakness, work preferences, and self-awareness. 

What is an assessment? Measuring students' knowledge and keeping track of it.

3 Types of Assessment

• Diagnostic: Finding out. Belongs in the introduction of the unit. (KWL chart, pre-assessment).
• Formative Assessment: Keeping track and checking up. Occurs throughout the lesson. (exit ticket, conference, quiz, journal entry, check for understanding)
• Summative Assessment: Making sure, at the end of the lesson, independent practice. (unit test, post-assessment, performance task)

Building Blocks & Components of Objectives

Condition: the setting. (given task or materials. only one setting)

Behavior: action expressed by a verb. (only one verb)

Criterion: expected performance level (no percentages. only one)
*Objective is written in the independent practice part of the lesson plan (the end). When students work alone they show that they really learned something.

Objective Formula: Given (a task or materials) the student will (a verb from Bloom's Taxonomy) with (an expected level of performance). 

*the materials in the objective are not the teacher's materials, they are the student's materials.

*the objective is singular; one student.

*you must create a rubric for the objective.

Objective example: Given a task to work in a group of 4 and the resources on the American Revolution, the student will create a poster, following the criteria of the rubric and scoring at 3/4.