Student Performance - Objectives and Evaluation


In this lesson, students are expected to identify the important facts within a passage and transfer them to note cards for later use. Students see these skills modelled by the media specialist and have the opportunity to practice them with a partner, allowing learners to support one another.

Assessment at this stage of the lesson is done on an informal basis. Both the classroom teacher and the media specialist conduct brief conferences to gauge students' understanding and provide help as needed. The classroom teacher also takes observation notes during the lesson. The class is asked to verbally review and reflect at the end of the day's session.

During the second day of this lesson, students are expected to locate and record basic source information on their note cards and begin to comprehend the need for source citation. Again, students complete practice exercises with a partner and are informally assessed through brief conferences, observation notes, and a closure activity where they "judge" the media specialist's statements about note-taking and source citation. A more formal assessment takes the form of a short quiz.

Observation and assessment of student performance on the quiz give the teachers evidence of the students'understanding, but evidence of true assimilation of the skills will appear as they conduct their research and actually take notes. It will be important to continue to closely observe students' efforts and conference with them in order to provide support to those who need it.

At this early stage of their research experience, I would consider having a class that seemed confident and performed well on the quiz to be a successful conclusion to the lesson.

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