In this task, you will demonstrate your ability to select a unit of study, identify related learning goals, and plan standards-based, developmentally-appropriate student assessment activities for a group of students. In addition, you will demonstrate your ability to assess student learning and diagnose student needs based on student responses to the assessment activity, and show how you would apply this information to your future planning for these students.

 

Within the Assessing Learning task you will also demonstrate your ability to make assessment adaptations for two focus students: an English learner and a student with identified special needs. You will score, review, and analyze evidence of student learning and you will reflect on the assessment implications of this evidence. You will submit to your teacher preparation program all of the following: your completed response, copies of the assessment(s), selected student assessment responses, and scoring scales, rubrics, and/or scoring guides as appropriate to the content area.

 

CTC (2008). CalTPA Candidate Handbook. California Commision on Teacher Credentialing. Retrived from: http://www.ctc.ca.gov/educator-prep/TPA-files/CandidateHandbook.pdf.