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PART 1: Select one of the following broad learning outcomes:
1. Identifies and sequences main ideas and details of a literature text.
2. Applies higher-level comprehension strategies (predicting, visualizing, questioning, making connections, and making inferences) to a science content area.
3. Discerns and explains the theme of a literature text.
4. Compares and contrasts two or more characters or elements of a literature text.
Research performance-based assessments and identify five types of performance-based assessments that could be used to assess the selected learning outcome.
Write a 750-1,000 word essay in which you describe each and how it could be used. Additionally, identify the one you would be most likely to use and briefly describe why.
Be sure to cite your sources for the assessments.
PART 2: Interview 2: Interview of a School Administrator Regarding Assessment Practices
Conduct research on district-wide assessment practices by interviewing a certified administrator from an elementary school.
Your interview questions should probe:
1. The type and number of district-wide testing and assessment practices the school implements.
2. Any modifications to the district-wide testing and assessment practices that the school implements for ELL, IEP and 504 students.
3. How data from these testing and assessment practices are shared with teachers.
4. How teachers share data from these testing and assessment practices with parents and students.
5. How implementation of these testing and assessment practices affects teachers' teaching and learning.
6. How data from these testing and assessment practices affects the teachers' teaching and learning.
7. The building administrator's attitudes and beliefs toward district-wide testing and assessment practices.
Ask additional questions and follow-up questions as appropriate. Retain a copy of the questions asked and responses received.
In a 250-500 word response, summarize your interview experience. Be sure to draw conclusions from your experience and describe how those conclusions can be applied to your future practice as an educator. Include in-text citations; a reference list is not required.
