Chapter+4


 * Date: || 6/18/12 || Title of Selection: || Blueprint for unit test ||

Select the appropriate method(s) to assess specific learning targets. Follow the steps in the Assessment Development Cycle. Create an assessment blueprint. Use an assessment blueprint with students as assessment //for// learning. ||
 * Learning target(s) this selection addresses:


 * What this selection illustrates about my learning/why I chose this selection: I chose to use an assessment that was already created by my district and revise it. This assessment has various methods which include: selected response, written response, and performance tasks. There is a rubric to score this assessment, but some of the questions were weighted unfairly, in my opinion. I kept in mind that I should not rely on the test writers too heavily. There is sometimes a mismatch of what I taught and the relative balance of what I thought was more important in the curriculum. For this reason, I thought that breaking the test down by reviewing the learning targets, the types of targets, the assessmentmethods, and the percent importance would help me when giving the same test next year. I can go forward with informed knowledge as to how the test should be weighted. I can then make suggestions about changing the test’s current state.**


 * **Unit:1, Grade 8 Math Graphing Ordered Pairs of Rational Numbers** ||
 * **Learning Targets** ||  **Target Type**  ||  **Assessment Method**  ||  **Percent Importance**  ||
 * Use geometry to model and describe the physical world. || Reasoning & skill || performance || 30 ||
 * Locate and name points on a coordinate plane using ordered pairs of rational numbers. || Knowledge & skill || written response || 20 ||
 * Solve problems to connect to everyday experiences, investigations in other disciplines and activities outside of school. || Reasoning || written response || 20 ||
 * Communicate about mathematics through informal and mathematical language, representations, and models. || Performance, personal communica- tion || Product/ skill || 30 ||