Objective, Test, and Rubric Construction
Student Performance Objectives:
- The teacher candidate will develop 35 original student performance objectives following specific guidelines.
- The teacher candidate will explain what makes for a good student performance objective.
- The teacher candidate will explain what makes for a good assessment.
- The teacher candidate will "explain" the five questions a teacher
needs to ask before creating an assessment.
- The teacher candidate will provide and explain criteria of a good test question,
and provide examples.
- The teacher candidate write a minimum of one exam question associated with each of the
various TIPER approaches.
- The teacher candidate will explain the need for, the creation of, and provide
an example of an effective scoring rubric.
- The teacher candidate will explain three benefits of using a scoring rubric.
- The teacher candidate will critique a given rubric, and specify ways in
which it might be improved.
- The teacher candidate will create a multidimensional rubric for a complex
task.
- The teacher candidate will explain the necessity of properly aligning student performance objectives, learning activities, and assessments.
Projects:
- The teacher candidate will examine a test including poorly worded questions,
and clearly indicating the problem with each if any.
- The teacher candidate will write proper student performance objectives
following specific guidelines.
- The teacher candidate will construct a physics
test following guidelines provided in the course syllabus.
- The teacher candidate will develop a scoring rubric for a complex task.
PHY 311 Course Syllabus
Test Analysis:
Performing a Test Analysis Assignment (read Improving Your Text Questions before completing.)
Writing Student Performance Objectives:
Examples of Student Performance Objectives
How
(NOT) to Write Student Performance Objectives
Writing Student Performance Objectives
Assignment
Test Preparation:
Writing Clear Exam Questions - A story about how
NOT to write test items.
Improving Your Test
Questions - 33 pages of suggestions for writing and evaluating seven types of test
items.
TIPERs (Tasks Inspired
by Physics Education Research)
Examples
of TIPERs in the area of charged particles in a magnetic field
Test Writing Assignment (test and rubric to
be scored with a Test
Project Scoring Rubric)
Rubric Construction:
Scoring Rubrics (PowerPoint presentation)
Creation of Scoring Rubrics
Creating a Scoring Rubric Assignment
Return to PHY 311 Course
Outline
(Last updated October 12, 2009, cjw)