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Webquest title:  Mighty Military Mom Moving Mountains

 

(Background music of Rocky Mountain High)

 

Introduction

You have just moved to a new school district with your four elementary-aged children because your active-duty military spouse has, yet again, taken a new assignment and that means a move.  You selected what you thought was the best school district for the needs of your children.  You attend the first School Board Meeting of the year and are surprised the school is in bit of turmoil.  The principal surprisingly resigned because of unexpected health problems and the quickly hired principal wants to shake some things up, to include the school’s view on assessment.  Because you can’t keep your hand down, you have volunteered to head a research committee on the different assessments. 

 

Task

·         Your committee (group) will use the next week to research the answers below. 

·         The second week you will be reviewing what each committee member found and put together a power point. 

·         You will use the last class of the second week to practice your presentation. 

·         Your presentation to the board (class) will start the third week of class.

 

Process

Three other parents volunteer to be on the committee.  Between the four of you, you have two weeks to answer the following questions and put together a power point for the upcoming special board meeting in two weeks.  You will need to divide evenly the question below.  Each committee member is to research the assigned questions.  The questions can be researched at the suggested sites or you can use another site of your own discovery. 

 

Below are the questions that need to be addressed and site where you can get the answers.  Your answers are to be unbiased – you are a fact-finding committee and that is what the board wants, the facts – just the facts, ma’am.

 

Each committee member (student) is to answer each question they have been assigned and then meet to compare the answers discovered.  You will consolidate the information and write the answers in a concise manner. You will then assemble a power point presentation consisting of at least 7 slides that will include what you discovered:

1)     Criteria-referenced assessment

2)     Norm-referenced assessment

3)     Traditional assessment

4)     Performance-based assessment

5)     Validity of an assessment with types of validity

6)     Establishment of test validity

7)     Reliability of assessment, establishment of test validity

 

Two weeks after you begin your research, you will present your power point to the board (class).  Select one spokesperson for your group who will give the presentation and be prepared to hand in the answers to the questions that you each found out. 

Also, prepare a packet of your presentation in a word document, using Word Perfect, to be submitted to the school board president (your instructor).  Don’t forget to list the names of all of those who composed the group.

 

Questions

 

Criteria-referenced

               

1)      What does it mean if an assessment is criteria-referenced?

·         http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/glossary/criteriareferenced.htm

·         http://www.unm.edu/~devalenz/handouts/criterion.html

·         http://www.fairtest.org/criterion-and-standards-referenced-tests

·         http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/Teaching/assessment/cra.html

 

2)      What are some K12 examples of criterion-referenced assessments?

·         http://www.chaffey.edu/slo/Assessment_Statements.pdf

 

3)      What are some of the reasons for using criterion-referenced assessments (their benefits)?

·         http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00002257.htm

·         www.talss.qut.edu.au/staff/staffdev/developingte/PRE_Assess_15Mar08_FIN_MP.ppt -

 

4)     What are some of the reasons for NOT using criterion-referenced assessments (the disadvantages)?

·         http://books.google.com/books?id=HTuE_zdROJ0C&pg=PA209&lpg=PA209&dq=disadvantages+of+criterionreferenced+assessments&source=web&ots=A5eZLHd7gx&sig=eYOeSxMUX2_n5KemcJAr3xPsrss&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result

·         www.talss.qut.edu.au/staff/staffdev/developingte/PRE_Assess_15Mar08_FIN_MP.ppt -

 

Norm-referenced

 

5)     What does it mean if an assessment is norm-referenced?

·         http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/glossary/normreferenced.htm

·         http://www.edtech.vt.edu/edtech/id/assess/purposes.html

·         http://www.cse.ucla.edu/products/glossary_2.html#norm

                

6)     What are some K12 examples of norm-referenced assessments?

·         http://www.chaffey.edu/slo/Assessment_Statements.pdf

·         http://wvde.state.wv.us/oaa/

 

7)     What are some of the reasons for using norm-referenced assessments (their benefits)?

·         http://books.google.com/books?id=SHqd6LQOx9wC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&dq=normreferenced+assessments++benefits&source=web&ots=FmFlcycWe2&sig=39N2R9hGrjGzxnoEgHEVRHsZOzU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result

·         http://journal.naeyc.org/btj/200401/maxwell.asp

 

8)     What are some of the reasons for NOT using norm-referenced assessments (the disadvantages)?

·         http://journal.naeyc.org/btj/200401/maxwell.asp

·         www.yorku.ca/bakerj/Assessment.ppt  screens 23-26

                     

Traditional Assessment

 

9)     What are the characteristics of a traditional assessment?

 

10)  What are some of the reasons for using traditional assessments (their benefits)?

 

11)  What are some of the reasons for NOT using traditional assessments (the disadvantages)?

  • http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=2&n=2           

 

Performance-based assessment

                       

12)  What are the characteristics of a performance-based assessment?

  • http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/tasks.htm

 

13)  What are some of the reasons for using performance-based assessments (their benefits)?

  • http://www.cityu.edu.hk/edo/workshops/STEP_ppt/STEP06.ppt

 

14)  What are some of the reasons for NOT using performance-based assessments (the disadvantages)?

 

Validity

 

15)  What does it mean if an assessment is valid?

                                                       

16)  What kinds of validity are there?

 

17)  How do test developers establish a test’s validity?

·         http://xnet.rrc.mb.ca/tomh/validity_i.htm

 

Reliability

 

18)  What does it mean if an assessment is reliable?

·         http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/2_learntch/briefing_papers/p_p_assessment.pdf

 

19)  In what ways do test developers establish a test’s reliability?

·         http://www.unl.edu/buros/bimm/html/lesson03.html

·         http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/14/1b/61.pdf

 

For general information about assessment, check out the following site:

tryout.questionmark.com/learningcafe/1919374234/Effective_Assessments_WWWH.ppt –

 

 

Evaluation

 

Before you get to the point of practicing your presentation, consider the following questions?

1)     Did our committee use reliable web sites to answer the questions?

2)     Did our committee do the level of work normally expected by your instructor (as to spelling, punctuation, sentence structure)?

3)     Is our presentation clear, precise and non-biased? (just the facts)

4)     Have all committee members done their fair share of their work and worked well as team?

 Good luck, and remember, you are doing this for your children!

 

Thank you for taking time out from your busy schedules of being a working/soccer/student/cab driver/maid/laundry attendant/cook/disciplinarian parent.  You are part of the process needed to develop the minds of the possible future leaders of our community/country/world.  Your time and effort is much appreciated.  (You also now have a sense of what it is like for educators to assess the projects/assignments of your child.)


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