Assessment Plan

Purpose and Learning Outcome

            The purpose of this assessment is to ensure that the students are able to identify letters in their name and write their names.

• The student will be able to identify, recite, and write their names by the end of the school year.

Assessment Context

1. The student will be able to identify each letter of their name by the second month of the school year with 60% accuracy, with the final week requiring 90% accuracy for outstanding achievement.  Fishing for letters-Each child will have a name card with their picture on it.  Using a fishing pole, magnets, and magnetic letters children will fish for letters and match those letters on their name card.

2. The student will be able to recite each letter in their name by the third month of the school year with 60% accuracy, with the final week requiring 90% accuracy for outstanding achievement.  When children have completed matching letters that they have fished for, they will recite each letter of their name during the transition from group time to free play.

3. The student will be able to write their name by the end of the school year with 90% accuracy for outstanding achievement When children have chosen the center they want to play in, they will sign in on a clip board using their name tags as a point of reference and hang up their name cards that they matched letters to playing the fishing for letters game, and recited letters during group time.

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Holistic Rubric

Outstanding Achievement – 90 to 100 points	The student’s project has a hypothesis, a procedure, collected data, and analyzed results.  The project is thorough and the findings are in agreement with the data collected.  There are minor inaccuracies that do not affect the quality of the project
Average Achievement – 70 to 60 points	The student’s project may have a hypothesis, a procedure, collected data, and analyzed results.  The project is not as thorough as it could be; there are a few overlooked areas.  The project has a few inaccuracies that affect the quality of the project
Needs Improvement – Below 60 points	The student’s project may have a hypothesis, a procedure, collected data, and analyzed results.  The project has several inaccuracies that affect the quality of the project

Assessment Plan

This assessment will deal with the first three levels of Blooms Taxonomy

·        Remembering – Letters of their name

·        Understanding – the order of letters in their name

·        Applying – writing their name with out help

Testing Constraint

During this particular assessment, the students will have 30 minutes to identify letters that are collected from the fish pond (1st hour of free center play).

At the point of identification the student will be given 30 additional minutes to recite the letters (Both done in repetition).

The students will come together at a large group time.  Teacher will hold up their name card and the student will identify their card, go up to teacher, say their name, spell it (looking at their name card) and move to a center for the second hour of free center play.  Using their name cards the students will sign in to the center to: 1) write their name, 2) let others know that a space is being used in that area, and 3) learn other student’s names.

The Galileo Assessment Tool

The Galileo Assessment Pre-K Online Assessment tool was created to as an in depth assessment checklist that measures progress in children ages 0-5 years.  This assessment is conducted throughout the school year beginning in October of each year.  This

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assessment was created to provide educators with information to plan and give an account of progression to administration and parents along with the teachers.  One of the best features of Galileo is that it gives the parents the opportunity to be a part of their child’s education.  Teachers explain the tool to parents and give them a password providing access for parents from an available computer.  This gives parents an inside look into what their child is doing and what needs to be done to help their child achieve optimal success. 

Rationale for Testing

Rationale and Thought Process for Testing Items
 
The students will be graded according to their responses to all 3 measurable learning outcomes.  The students will participate in the first two activities in small groups.  The last activity will be conducted during the transition from large group time to free center play.  The essay part of this test comes in the form of writing their names on a sign in sheet in order to access the particular center they want to play in,  To further enhance learning letters, children will also observe and recognize “maximum occupancy signs” (to be reviewed during small group sessions of letter recognition activities), or “closed” signs.  This is a child initiated activity based on previous teacher directed activities

Measurable Learning Outcomes for a Hypothetical Unit of Study: Pre-K Level

Write at least three measurable learning outcomes for a hypothetical unit of study and grade level of your choosing. 

Grade Level:  Pre-K

1st Measurable Learning Outcome:  The student will identify the
letters of his/her name with
100% accuracy.

2nd Measurable Learning Outcome: The student will recite the
letters of his/her name with
100% accuracy.

3rd Measurable Learning Outcome: The student will write the
letters of his/her name with
100% accuracy.

1) Fishing for letters-Each child will have a name card with their picture on it.  Using a fishing pole, magnets, and magnetic letters children will fish for letters and match those letters on their name card.

2) When children have completed matching letters that they have fished for, they will recite each letter of their name during the transition from group time to free play.

3) When children have chosen the center they want to play in, they will sign in on a clip board using their name tags as a point of reference and hang up their name cards that they matched letters to playing the fishing for letters game, and recited letters during group time.