Series Planning Instruction with PARCC Tools: ELA: Unpacking Sample Assessment Items

Unpacking Sample Assessment Items

Lesson Objective: Learn from unpacking sample assessment items
All Grades / ELA / Assessment
4 MIN

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Discussion and Supporting Materials

Thought starters

  1. What can you learn from examining sample assessment items?
  2. How can sample assessment items help you create your own questions?
  3. How can you imagine using sample assessment items in your own teaching?

77 Comments

  • Private message to Gregory Broussard

1.  By examining sample assessment items, I can ask what the students need to know to answer the item, understand what is being measured, and formulate how I would apply the text.  It allows me to align the standards with questions and activities given to the students.

2. Sample assessment items can be aligned with the lesson.  We can focus on what is actually being assessed.  

3.  I can imagine using sample assessment items in my teaching by clearly presenting the standard to the students, working through actual examles of what is being assessed, and allowing the students to develop their own questions  relative to the assessed standard.  

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  • Private message to Michael Daigre

Sample assessment items can help teachers formulate questions and activites for their class. They provide a foundation and can be used as a base or starting point, which can be specified to their students.

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  • Private message to Nakeisha Gardner
  1. I can learn from examining sample assessment items that it can give you an ideal of how to create, structure, and form questions that can provoke abstract thinking.
  2. Sample assessment items can help create my own questions by aligning the questions to a specific standard or objective.
  3. I can imagine using sample assessment items in my own teaching to navigate whether or not the student is approaching or mastering a certain standard of the skill. 
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  • Private message to DeAnna Granger
  1. What can you learn from examining sample assessment items?  Examining sample assessment items is important because it gives you a tool to see what the student is expected to know prior to the assessment.  
  2. How can sample assessment items help you create your own questions?  Sample assessment items can help you to create your own questions by being able to use it as a guide to create questions for that particular standard.
  3. How can you imagine using sample assessment items in your own teaching?  I can imagine using sample assessment items to assist me in teaching what a student is expected to know.   Sample assessment items are also beneficial for me to  help teach the students not only how to understand the question that is being asked but also to teach them how to answer a question from their knowledge.  It is also beneficial for me to find out what they already know, and what they do not know so I can cover areas where knowledge is lacking.  
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THOUGHT STARTERS

  1. What can you learn from examining sample assessment items? By examining sample assessment items, you can gain valuable insights into the structure, format, and content of assessments
  2. How can sample assessment items help you create your own questionsSample assessment items can serve as a valuable resource and inspiration when creating your own questions.Sample assessment items can serve as a valuable resource and inspiration when creating your own questions.Generating ideas: By examining well-designed sample items, you can generate ideas for crafting similar questions that test specific knowledge or skills
  3. How can you imagine using sample assessment items in your own teachingDiagnostic assessment: Using sample items at the beginning of a unit or course can help you diagnose students' prior knowledge and identify any misconceptions. This information can guide your instructional planning and enable targeted remediation if needed.
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