Chapter+5


 * ** Date: ** || ** 6/20/12 ** || ** Title of Selection: ** || ** Chapter 5 Selected Response Assessment ** ||


 * ** Learning target(s) this selection addresses: **

ü Make an assessment blueprint for a selected response assessment.

Choose from among selected response formats.

ü Create high-quality items.

ü Audit any selected response test for quality.

ü Use selected response assessments to plan further instruction.

ü Use selected response assessments as feedback to students and for student self-assessment and goal setting. ||


 * What this selection illustrates about my learning/why I chose this selection: **

This chapter, thus far, has offered the most strategies that I feel I can and will use next year in my class room. The activities for this chapter were very involved and required quite a bit of time and effort to complete, but when they were complete, the activities and ideas were ones that I could really use and useful. I spent quite a bit of time working on Activity 5.2. I believe that that activity showcases the most valuable learning targets of this chapter. I also feel that it encompasses much of the learning from the chapter. For this activity, I completed a test blueprint for a selected response assessment, took a made up quiz to demonstrate the importance of creating high quality test items, and audited an existing selected response assessment for test quality. I learned much about creating high quality test items. It’s amazing the little things we can miss making an exam for students to take. Simple things like clueing students in to certain answer choices by ending a stem in the word ‘an’ or referring to the one plural items listed in the answer choices. I learned that it is not the best idea to use the words ‘always’, ‘none’, and ‘never’ in answer choices because student realize that those answer choices would be unlikely. I learned that simply by auditing an exam for quality, many of these mistakes can be avoided. I believe that activity 5.2 also encourage me to use these assessments further instruction in the classroom and to allow students to give and receive effective and meaningful feedback. It is for these reasons that I have chosen to re-submit and artifact I have already completed for my portfolio, Activity 5.2. I also attached the assessment I used when making the blueprint and answering the checklist.