Assessment Plan

Purpose and Learning Outcome

Purpose: For students to be able to identify community helpers and what they do

Learning Outcome: Students will be able to identify different community helpers and be able to identify the roles they play through the services they offer. As well as the tools and equipment they have to use. 

Assessment Context

Students will be able to demonstrate the task that each community helper has to do. For example, for a chef children will be able to pretend to cook for other people. For a dentist, children will be able to pretend to clean a play dolls teeth. Another activity students will be able to perform is matching community helpers with the tool they use. For example, fire man will match to fire truck, dentist with toothbrush and librarian to books.  

Holistic Rubric

3	2	1
Identifies all community helpers	Identifies some of the community helpers	Identifies  little or no community helpers
Identifies the roles of all community helpers	Identifies some of the roles of community helpers	Identifies little or no roles of community helpers
Able to act out all of the community helpers	Able to act out  some of the community helpers	Not able to act the community helpers

Testing Constraints

In the head start program, the only assessments we have are done in the beginning of the year. As far as children being recalled on information learned we go over it during circle time or use a chart or graph. Circle time last for about twenty minutes. Enough time to go over the theme, story, finger play, calendar, weather and music and movement. For example, I will show a picture of a teacher and the children will tell me, “the teacher teaches the class, ABC’s, numbers, colors, and shapes. When I show a picture of the dentist, the child would say” the dentist cleans your teeth and make them healthy”.

Rationale

Thought process and rationale

My thought was to think about the children in my head start class. I teach four year olds and one of the themes we will be doing is community helpers. I thought this is a great unit of study because the children really enjoy it. The first thing to do is come up with lesson plans that involve the individualization of each child and provide activities to go with the lesson for the week.  With the individualization come the learning outcomes and objectives. “An instructional objective should be a clear and concise statement of the skill or skills that your students will be expected to perform after a unit of instruction”, (Kubiszyn & Borich, 2010, pg. 110).   

After the learning objectives, a test item follows. These items should and could be tested from the objectives. There are several formats to use, but teachers should use what best fits their students on their particular grade level. Essay questions require that the student supply rather than select a response (Kubiszyn & Borich, 2010). Essay questions allows to student to use their thinking skills and apply all information learn to the problem.  

My rationale is to make sure that all assessments and outcome are appropriate for four and five year olds. To make sure that all students are able to accomplish through the outcomes that are chosen. Every child learns different and on their own level. Therefore, every student should leave class learning something.

 

Reference

Kubiszyn, T. & Borich, G. (2010). Educational testing & measurement: Classroom application and practice (9th ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

Community Helpers

Study: Community Helpers

Grade Level: Pre-K

Learning Outcomes

•  Children will be able to identify community helpers: Fire Fighters, Teacher, Police Officer, Trash Collector, Nurse, Postal Worker, Doctor, Librarian, and Dentist

•   Children will be able to identify the roles they play through the services they offer.

•  Children will be able to identify and recognize the tools and equipment that are used by all community helpers

Assessment feedbacks are for the improvement of classes. The assessment tool measures the student observations of substance and their current ability in course specific learning objectives. The information taken from the assessments allows course enhancements over time. It is intended to enhance course evaluations based on specific and actionable learning objectives (Kathryn, Sharon, Julie, Saly & John, 2008).

Reference

Kathryn, L. C., Sharon, K. G., Julie, M. H., Saly, J., & John, T. W. (2008). Enhancing curriculum and delivery: Linking assessment to learning objectives. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 33(1), 87. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/203788302?accountid=32521

Three test items

1.    If you were a dentist, what do you do?
2.   If you work in a building and you help people feel better, who are you?
3.    Give a worksheet of picture of community helpers and let the children identify them or match them to what they do.

 

Essay item

I would want to make sure that all areas of development are taken place. Children would be asked to identify what each community helper does, where they work, what they drive, what they use, and who they can help.