Jessica Klouda EDU 645 Week 6 Assessment Plan

Assessment Plan

Jessica Klouda

EDU 645 Learning and Assessment for the 21^st Century

Dr. James Young

July 22, 2013

 Assessment Plan

Purpose:

The purpose of this assessment plan is to make sure preschool age children (age 3-5) have learned specific math concepts.

Learning Outcome:

Given everyday objects, student will recognize them into groups based on attributes: color, shape, size.

Assessment Context:

1.      Give the students a piece of paper with different shaped objects. Instruct students to cut out different shapes and glue onto another piece of paper by shape into 4 categories: circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles.

2.      Give the students a small felt board divided into four sections with a different color in each section. Hand out various shapes and instruct children to identify the colors of the shapes and match them to the four categories on their felt board(red, blue, yellow, and green).

3.      Give the students cutouts of an apple in 4 different sizes. Instruct children to tape cutouts to paper by size, smallest to biggest.

Holistic rubric:

	1 pt.	2 pts.	3 pts.	4pts.
Identify and categorize by shape	Not able to categorize any shapes correctly	Able to categorize 1 shape correctly	Able to categorize   2 or 3 shapes correctly	Able to categorize all 4 shapes correctly.
Identify and categorize felt shapes by color	Not able to categorize any color correctly	Able to categorize 1 color correctly	Able to categorize 2 or 3 colors correctly.	Able to categorize all 4 colors correctly
Sort by size	Not able to correctly sort any apples by size.	Able to correctly sort 2 of the 4 apples by size	Able to correctly sort 3 of the 4 apples by size.	Able to correctly sort all 4 apples by size.

Testing Constraints:

This assessment will be used after the completion of a unit on colors, shapes, and sizes. Each student will get 10 minutes to complete each of the three activities. The student will work alone during the assessment. Student will accomplish additional instruction and retesting if scoring below and eight out of twelve. Instructions will be given by the teacher or teacher’s aide to ensure students understand what is expected. Students will be allowed to ask questions during the assessment to make sure students understand the directions.

Thought Process and Rationale for Test Items

When dealing with preschool age children it is very hard to have specific test items as seen on traditional testing. Children in this age group require hands on testing and verbal responses in order to assess their understanding of the objectives. I have spent some time in this area of education which requires a lot of thinking outside the box.

I chose to have children show their understanding through various means to include art (cutting and gluing), manipulative, and hands on techniques. I feel that a preschool age child will be able to express their understanding through these means because they will see it is a fun project rather than a boring test. Giving a child this age an actual test would be daunting and most likely not be successful.

Week 2 Assignment- Learning Ooutcomes- EDU 645

Name: Jessica Klouda

Subject: Math (geometry) 

Grade: Preschool (ages 3-5)

Learning Outcomes:

1. Student will identify, match, and sort shapes into categories by using felt shapes.

2. Students can describe, using words, the attributes of an object from their environment.

3. Given everyday objects, student will recognize them into groups based on attributes: color, shape, size.

Test Items:

1.      Give the students a piece of paper with different shaped objects. Instruct students to cut out different shapes and glue onto another piece of paper by shape into categories.

2.      Give the students a small felt board divided into four sections with a picture of one shape in each section. Hand out various shapes and instruct children to identify each shape and match them to the four categories on their felt board.

3.      Give the students cutouts of different shapes. Instruct children to tape cutouts to paper by size, smallest to biggest.

Essay Question (verbal answer): What is the difference in shape between a yo-yo and a square title? (Show these items to the children to describe for question.)