ED 531 Seminar 2

Communicating Assessment Information,Using APA Format in Text and ReferencesDr. Carol Rubel

Agenda

GreetingsSharingQuestions on Communicating

Assessment InformationFieldwork Assignment ChartAPA FormattingQuestions

Let’s Share.....

We all want to get to know one another......What would you like to share......

What makes curriculum match expectations?Who has expectations?

ParentsTeachersAdministratorsStudentsState Ed Dept

I want to learn

I want proficiency scores to be increased

I want students to learn what I teach

I want state standards aligned with lesson objectives

I want my child to

be happy learning

Question 1

What are your ideas right now about modifying the curriculum you are using?

Content ReadinessProcess InterestProduct Learning Profile

Question 2

 Does your school’s, organization’s or company’s curriculum "match up" with a commonly accepted theory?

•        Describe the similarities and differences.

Assessment at Work...... The seminar this week will focus on communicating assessment information.

Consider the following: A set of parents comes to you with questions about why their child—whom they think

is brilliant— hasn’t been moved into the honors class. You have assessed their student for the first month of school and every indicator demonstrates that the child is not prepared (or qualified) for honors-level work. How do you communicate this evaluation to the parents? We will talk about various strategies for handling this situation--both good and bad.

Read carefully the Six Categories of Responsibility for Teachers, Responsibilities when Interpreting and Using Assessment Results, and Responsibilities When Communicating Assessment Results from Chapter 5 in Nitko. We will discuss the following: Once teachers have a job, issues such as responsibilities are rarely discussed

again. Why might that situation be good? Why might it be dangerous? Where else in your professional life have you been given a code of behavior (like

Chapter 5’s ethics and responsibilities)? Are such reminders helpful or harmful? What impact do you think this chapter's discussion will have on your future

teaching career?

REVISED: Field Assignment: Designing, Administering, and Evaluating Assessment Tools (Unit 4) Prepare a set of 3 activities on a given topic. Then design an assessment tool. Describe the

assessment tool, and then reflect on how you would administer, score, and analyze the results of a new assessment tool for a related set of learning targets in your classroom, place of work, or wherever you help others to learn.  Upon reflection, you will summarize the possible results to include the areas of strengths and weaknesses according to the instructional activities you created. What best practices were used in the activities and in your assessment tool? Based upon these results, what instruction should you plan? Write a report in which you describe the following:

the learning targets being assessed, the assessment tool or method, the conditions under which the assessment would be administered, how learners will probably perform on the assessment based on your instructional activity, an analysis of why particular learners might do well or poorly on this assessment, what kinds of further instruction the learners may need on the basis of these assessment results,

and self-reflection on the strengths and weaknesses of this assessment tool or method.

Summarize your findings in a report of 300-500 words. View the rubric under the Grading Rubric tab in the Course Home. Your Field Assignment is due at the end of Unit 4. Submit your work in the Dropbox basket titled Field Assignment.

Field Assignment Work Sheet

Part I. Assignment Work Sheet: Objective State Standard Activity What are you going to assess? How will you assess it? #1 #2 #3

Part II. Design an Assessment

Part III. Reflection Essay

SEE DOC SHARE for FIELD ASSIGNMENT CHART

References- Journal articles

One author: Darling-Hammond, L. (2003). Keeping good teachers:

Why it matters, what leaders can do? Educational Leadership, 55

(5), 6-11.

Note:

1. All lines after the first line are indented 5-7 spaces

2. Only use the first name initial

3. Only the first word is capitalized for the title of the article

4. The journal name is italicized and the whole name is capitalized

5. You must have the volume in this case 55

6. The issue in this case (5) is bracketed

7. The pages in this case 6-11

8. There is a space between the vol. and issue, but no comma

55 (5)

9. The entire citation is single spaced.

Journal articles

Two Authors Coladarci, T. & Breton, W. A. (1997). Teacher efficacy, supervision,

and the special education resource room teacher. The Journal of

Educational Research, 90, 230 – 239.

Note:

1. After the first author’s name, there is a , a space, and &

2. In this journal there is no issue, so there is a comma after the volume.

A Book

Breaux, A. L., & Wong, H. K. (2003). New teacher induction: How to

train, support, and retain new teachers. Mountainview, CA: Harry

K. Wong.

Note:

1. The author citing is the same as in the journal.

2. The name of the book is italicized, and only the first letter of the title is capitalized.

3. After the title, you write the city, state in which the book was published.

In this case, Mountainview, CA

4. Place a : after the state and write the publisher ( in this case, Harry K. Wong)

Internet source

Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce. (2003). About Las Vegas:

Demographics. Retrieved August 10, 2003, from

http://www.lvchamber.com/las_vegas/demographics.htm

Note:

1. Capitalize the name of the Organization.

2. Italicize the name of the article. This is unusual since Las Vegas is a name and there is a : so the word after the : should be capitalized; otherwise, only the first letter of the article name is capitalized.

3. Write Retrieved then the date, from and then the website. You should undo the link.

A P A Text Format

You want to: cite a paraphrased or summarized

reference in the front of your sentence-

Haring and Liberty (1990) stated maintenance and generalization of skills are criteria used to evaluate both learning and instruction, and the utility of that instruction.

APA

You want to: cite a paraphrased or summarized

reference at the end of your sentence-

Maintenance and generalization of skills are criteria used to evaluate both learning and instruction, and the utility of that instruction (Haring & Liberty, 1990).

APA

You want to: quote in the front of your sentence-

Haring and Liberty (1990) stated, “Maintenance and generalization of skills are criteria used to evaluate both learning and instruction, and the utility of that instruction” (p. 34).

APA

You want to: quote first and then mention the authors-

“Maintenance and generalization of skills are criteria used to evaluate both learning and instruction, and the utility of that instruction” (Haring & Liberty, 1990, p. 34).

APA

You want to: cite paraphrased or summarized

information that the author used as a reference in his text:

Many authorities propose stages of student learning that are said to be instrumental in designing and implementing effective classroom instruction (Mercer & Mercer, as cited in Haring & Liberty, 1990).

The researchers cited by Haring & Liberty

The article you read was by Haring & Liberty published in 1990

APA

You want to: cite information that the author used as a

paraphrased or summarized reference in his text IN THE BEGINNING of the sentence:

Mercer and Mercer (as cited in Haring & Liberty, 1990) explained many authorities propose stages of student learning that are said to be instrumental in designing and implementing effective classroom instruction .

APA

You want to: cite information that the author used as a

quoted reference in his text after you mention the authors IN THE BEGINNING of the sentence:

Mercer and Mercer (as cited in Haring & Liberty, 1990) explained, “Many authorities propose stages of student learning that are said to be instrumental in designing and implementing effective classroom instruction” (p. 34) .

APA

You want to:cite information that the author used as a

quoted reference in his text IF you mention the authors LAST-

“Many authorities propose stages of student learning that are said to be instrumental in designing and implementing effective classroom instruction” (Mercer & Mercer, as cited in Haring & Liberty, 1990, p. 34) .

Questions??????????

What questions would you like to ask?

Have a GREAT week!

See you in cyberspace.....

Dr. Rubel