The document discusses assessment strategies for a unit on mythology. It identifies five purposes of assessment: gauging student needs, encouraging self-direction and collaboration, monitoring progress, checking understanding and metacognition, and demonstrating understanding. For each purpose, it selects different assessment strategies including think-pair-share, debates, video and comic projects, rubrics, checklists, peer feedback, artistic expressions, and reflections. Overall, the strategies are meant to engage students in the assessment process and fit the learning objectives by having students work individually and collaboratively to apply and demonstrate their understanding of mythology concepts.
The document discusses assessment strategies for a unit on mythology. It identifies five purposes of assessment: gauging student needs, encouraging self-direction and collaboration, monitoring progress, checking understanding and metacognition, and demonstrating understanding. For each purpose, it selects different assessment strategies including think-pair-share, debates, video and comic projects, rubrics, checklists, peer feedback, artistic expressions, and reflections. Overall, the strategies are meant to engage students in the assessment process and fit the learning objectives by having students work individually and collaboratively to apply and demonstrate their understanding of mythology concepts.
The document discusses assessment strategies for a unit on mythology. It identifies five purposes of assessment: gauging student needs, encouraging self-direction and collaboration, monitoring progress, checking understanding and metacognition, and demonstrating understanding. For each purpose, it selects different assessment strategies including think-pair-share, debates, video and comic projects, rubrics, checklists, peer feedback, artistic expressions, and reflections. Overall, the strategies are meant to engage students in the assessment process and fit the learning objectives by having students work individually and collaboratively to apply and demonstrate their understanding of mythology concepts.
Have we considered varied type of assessment strategies to assess the
important learning objectives of our unit?
As a group, we considered the varied type of assessment strategies to assess the important learning objectives. In the first assessment purpose, which is the Gauging the Student Needs; we picked think-pair-share, brainstorming and debate. We believe that these kind of assessment will make the start of learning interesting with the sharing of ideas from one student to another. In the second assessment purpose which is the Encouraging Self- Direction and Collaboration; we choose group plan for short video and project plan for digi-comics. Students will be working individually and collaboratively, where they will synthesize their learning in a form of short video as well as creating their own draft of story and make digital comics from it using the Pixton app. In the third assessment purpose which is the Monitoring Progress; we select project rubric, progress checklist, collaborative assessment-short video and peer feedback-digicomics. Project rubric will serve as a guide or criteria used to evaluate their performance and what will be expected from their outputs. Progress checklist will be used in monitoring their progress in making the activity. In collaborative assessment, students will rate the contribution of every member in making their video such as being the scriptwriter, the editor, cameraman, actor etc. Peer feedback will be done by pair where students evaluate each other works/outputs in digi-comics. In the fourth assessment purpose which is the Checking Understanding and Encouraging Metacognition; we include projects or product outputs are shared and assessed with rubrics and video and photo journals. Teacher will assess the presentation of short video as well as digi-comics based on the given criteria. Video and photo journals will be a proof or documentation during the process of making their presentation or outputs. In the fifth assessment purpose which is the Demonstrating Understanding; we take artistic expressions and reflection. The students will create a poster of their favorite myth, in this way they can be creative. Reflection will sum up their learning from the unit, it’s like the generalization of the discussion about mythology. Are students engaged in the assessment process? As we select different assessment strategies we also make sure that it engages students in the process as well as it fits with our learning objectives. The following are the assessment we picked: Think-Pair-Share and Brainstorming - using think-pair-share makes the students work together to answer a question with regards to the difference between Philippine tradition and beliefs from other countries. Students firstly (1) think individually about a topic or answer; and then (2) share ideas with their classmates. During this process, it also includes brainstorming or gathering list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members. Debate - After reading the given story, students will exchange their opinions through debate using Kialo online platform. The class will be divided into two groups; the pros and cons and the debate topic will be based on how the characters behave in the story. Group Plan for Short Video - The students will synthesize their learning in a form of short video. They will be divided into groups and portray the lesson/message from the mythology cartoon they have watched. Project Plan for Digi-Comics - students individually create their own draft of mythology. After making and submitted their draft they can give life the story through digital comics using Pixton. Project Rubric - is a scoring guide used to evaluate their performance which is the short video and their individual output in digital comics. It consists of three parts: 1) performance criteria; 2) rating scale; and 3) indicators. It defines what is expected and what will be assessed from their performance. Progress Checklist - serves as a monitor of what specific tasks/requirements they’ve already met or done. Every meeting it will be checked by the teacher, from selecting theme to making draft of their story. Collaborative Assessment-Short video – students will be grading each other or evaluating the level of contribution made by each member in making their short video task Peer Feedback-DigiComics - students will submit their digital comics individually. This feedback will be done by pair where students evaluate each other works/outputs. Projects or Product Outputs are shared and assessed with rubrics - students will present their short video presentation and digital comics in the class and the teacher will assess it based on the given criteria. Video and Photo Journals - this will serve as proof or documentation during the process of making their presentation or outputs and it could help support their progress checklist. Artistic Expressions - to give other examples of mythologies, the students will create a poster of their favorite myth. Reflection - to sum up their learning from the unit, students will be required to make individual reflection that generalizes the concepts and elements of mythology. In general, the assessment process can be described as student- centered.