November+11

This week you will begin work on your essay for the final exam. The grading letter is due today. You must have a rough draft of the final paper ready by November 22.


 * For your final exam, you will write a paper to answer the following question: How would you integrate assessment, testing, and grading to develop a comprehensive assessment program? Explain how the components of your program meet the needs of students, parents, teachers, and administrators.** I realize this is a challenging paper to write. Think about the ways in which assessment supports learning, how learning is demonstrated through testing, and how grades reflect degrees of mastery (student learning). You are required to have a minimum of 5 references. Two of the references may be Davies and Wormeli. I do expect you to present a quality essay representing your synthesis of assessment, testing, and grading. This paper is considered a formal essay; therefore, use APA style for format and citations.

Peer Assessment Activity: I will send you the email addresses of two classmates. You are to email a rough draft of your paper to the two classmates by November 22. You will also receive papers from two classmates. Everyone is expected to read two rough drafts, offer descriptive feedback in terms of assignment criteria, and return rough drafts by December 2. The goal of the peer-assessment activity is three-fold. First, you get to experience what it feels like as a student to receive feedback from your peers. Second, you evaluate your peer's paper in terms of the essay criteira. This will help deepen your understanding of the essay criteria. Lastly, you will gain insights from your peers' papers that you can use to strengthen your own paper. This exercise is effective only if all participants give honest, respectful feedback in the same terms as the criteria given for this assignment.

The final paper is due Dec. 9. Email the assignment to jajturner@gmail.com as a Word document. You cannot be late in turning in this paper as my turn-around time for grading and reporting grades is short.

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