In ECI 330, students develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to effectively evaluate learning. This includes understanding assessment as the process of gathering information to guide decision making, examining a variety of formal and informal assessments, evaluating their relative merits and limitations, understanding the concepts of validity and reliability, and formulating an initial assessment philosophy that recognizes the social and political milieu of schooling.

There is one artifact required for ECI 330, Evaluation of Learning:

1. Final Exam - Assessment Plan

You are a 4th grade teacher planning a unit exploring the legacy and cultures of prehistoric indigenous peoples in Arizona [Arizona History Concept 1SS-E2]. Your objectives are for your students to

(1) demonstrate how archaeological and anthropological research gives us information about prehistoric people [PO 1]

(2) identify characteristics of hunter-gatherer societies, including their development of tools and adaptation to environments [PO 2]

(3) compare the distinctive cultures of the Anasazi, Hohokam, and Mogollon, including where they lived, their agriculture, housing, decorative arts, and trade networks [PO 4]

(4) describe how prehistoric cultures adapted to, and altered, their environment, including irrigation canals and housing [PO 5]

You have a class of 25 students, 12 boys and 13 girls. Two students have issues with attention and another one has documented reading limitations. There are six English language learners in the class, three of whom are new to the school. Ethnicities represented include Anglo, Hispanic, Native American, Asian, and multi-ethnic; eight of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch.

Write an assessment plan for this unit. Select appropriate formal and/or informal assessment methods for the stated objectives (4 points); then describe these assessment tasks in terms of content, length, frequency, and scoring or documenting student competencies (4 points). Be sure to describe how your plan adequately reflects the knowledge and skills of the students in your class (4 points) and at appropriate grade level (4 points). Organize your response so that it is clear which objectives are going to be assessed using which method(s) and is free of grammatical, punctuation, or spelling errors (4 points).