Domain B Artifact Rational

Domain B; Assessing Student Learning is an essential aspect of effective learning and

teaching. Assessments provide the teacher with results of the effectiveness of their teaching

and the level of understanding the student has acquired. Effective assessments monitor student

learning during instruction and produce interpretable results.

Artifact 1 is an anticipatory guide that will be used as a pre assessment. Pre assessments

provide teachers insight about the students’ prior knowledge before a lesson. Teachers can use

the results of the assessments to make adjustments in the lesson or even the unit depending on

the needs of the students. This particular pre assessment checks students’ prior knowledge and

then check students post lesson to monitor knowledge gained and misconceptions corrections.

Artifact 2 is a student choice project that allows students the option to choose between

three different projects. The project would use a rubric to assess student work and progress.

Giving students the option to choose a project allows them to showcase their academic

strengths.

Artifact 3 is an Edulastic assessment which would be given at the end of the unit. This

assessment is a formal summative assessment that uses a variety of question types. Artifact 1,2,

and 3 display the use of multiple assessment types. Using different types of assessments

provide the teacher with more accrete results and better representation of the teacher’s

effectiveness. The assessments were also applied at multiple points throughout the lesson and

or unit. This allows the teacher to monitor student learning progress during a lesson as well as

throughout a unit.
 Artifact 4 is an article about misconceptions of assessments and how to improve them

to be a more effective teaching tool. The interpretation of data is a guide for teachers and

gages their effectiveness rather than the students’ level of understanding. To produce more

effective results we need to have a purpose for them and not bombard assessments on

students just to get a understanding of their performance level.