Artifact Reflection

Title of Artifact: Common Writing Assessment Date: _November, 2006

This artifact is a district required Common Writing Assessment each teacher has been asked to conduct on a specified group of his or her students. This year, elective teachers were included in the writing task and method of evaluating students' writing skills. Together with the other Tech Ed teacher, we came up with the writing prompt and rubric for evaluation.
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This artifact primarily addresses Standard 8: Assessment. It is a demonstration of understanding the uses of formal assessment to ensure the continuous growth of our students.

This artifact secondarily addresses Standard 1: content; Standard 2: Development; Standard 6: Communication; and Standard 10: Collaboration. This activity was in collaboration with teachers in the Tech Ed department, and combined subject content to expected levels of development.

I believe this artifacts best aligns with KSD1f: Assesses Student Learning. Students are required to communicate their understanding of the importance of change within a technological society.

This alignment secondarily addresses the following KDS Standards:
1. KSD3d. Provides Feedback to Students
6. KSD4b.Maintains Accurate Records

I learned that students don't always read the instructions! Along with the other Tech Ed teacher, a paper was written that I felt had very clear instructions. The students were asked to write a 1-2 page paper, and were given five questions to address within the body of the paper. The instruction specifically states that there should be know yes or no answers on the paper, but that the questions were simply prompts. I was quite disappointed with how many students in that first class did not follow those instructions.