Assessment Part Two

Our unit is complete. The students were very excited about turning in their creative writing stories and Diane is pretty confident that the stories will be a good reflection of their learning over the course of the unit. For our final assessments we have used a few different tools.

First, the pre-teach/post-teach checklist has been collected and analyzed by Carrie, the librarian in this collaboration. An increase in content knowledge concerning the holocaust and worldwide oppression was indicated by 100% of the students involved in the unit. 50% of the students indicated improvement over the course of the unit for specific tasks including the following:

Reading for Pleasure-2%
Evaluating/Analyzing Information-7%
Pursuing In-Depth Study of a Topic-2%
Analyzing Non-Fiction Writing-10%
Creating an Outline-5%
Creating a Concept Map-5%
Constructing new Ideas from Historical Information-5%
Identifying False Information on the Web-13%
Writing a Fiction Story Based on Research-13%
Focusing During Discussion-2%
Participating in Discussions Appropriately-7%
Evaluating Photos for Meaning/Purpose-7%

An open book quiz was used to evaluate the students ability to acquire new content knowledge on the book Night. A worksheet was used to see how students could apply the new information they were learning about the world and history to their spiritual journey and everyday life. A rubric was used to evaluate the students creative writing abilities. The rubric evaluates the quality of the short story and the technical aspects of the short story.

Part of the requirements listed includes turning in the note pages the students were required to fill out while they were researching on the internet. These note pages can be evaluated separately to see the types of websites students used to acquire information about their topic.