Movin’ on Up through Achievement

1. Movin’ on Up through Achievement Department of Foreign Language Retreat August 16, 2011

2. Elements to Assess Achievement • Objective • Assessment • Criterion

3. Objective • After completing Spanish I, students will be able to: • Interact with peers using common Spanish language vocabulary • Use appropriate grammar in speaking and writing Spanish • Translate written English into Spanish • Translate written Spanish into English

4. Assessments • Rubric to assess level of interaction in Spanish conversation with peers. • Appropriate grammar • Speaking – rubric to assess grammar • Writing – rubric to assess grammar in written assignment • Translation Exam – English to Spanish • Translation Exam – Spanish to English

5. Criterion • At least 70% total score on rubric • Grammar • At least 70% on speaking rubric assessing grammar • At least 70% on rubric assessing written assignment • At least 70% on translation exams

6. Assessment Chart

7. Rubric

8. Conversion of Points • Overall – 70 points – 70% = 49 points • Grammar – 30 points – 70% = 21 points

9. What is a Rubric? • Authentic assessment tool • Scoring guide • Evaluate student's performance • Based on range of criteria • Working guide - students & teachers • Provided before the assignment begins • Students think about criteria on which their work will be judged.

10. 3 Common Features • Focus on measuring a stated objective (performance, behavior, or quality). • Use a range to rate performance. • Contain specific performance characteristics arranged in levels indicating the degree to which a standard has been met

11. Rubric Advantages • Improve student performance - clearly shows student how work will be evaluated and what is expected • Rubrics help students become better judges of quality of own work • Allow assessment to be more objective and consistent • Force instructor to clarify criteria in specific terms

12. Advantages (continued) • Reduce amount of time instructors spend evaluating student work • Promote student awareness criteria used in assessing peer performance • Provide useful feedback to the instructor regarding effectiveness of instruction

13. Advantages (continued) • Provide students more informative feedback about strengths and areas in need of improvement • Accommodate heterogeneous classes by offering a range of quality levels • Easy to use and explain

14. Rubrics Rubistar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ TeAchnology http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/

15. Rubric Template