Artifact 1: My Introduction to Student Assessment
This artifact is a lesson plan containing one of the first assessments I wrote. I included this assessment because it shows my starting point with this inTASC standard. At first, I believe I had a strong foundation, but my assessment did not isolate specific abilities and did not have a formal scoring guide. This artifact impacted the students in my teaching internship positively by being my baseline for assessment creation. I was able to make more intentional and better aligned assessments for my students during my internship with the experience of writing this assessment.
Artifact 2: My Introduction to Scoring Guides
This artifact is an organizer for the assessments of a curriculum project I completed. There are three assessments (performance tasks) within this organizer and there are general descriptions and alignment descriptions as well as a scoring guide for each assessment. I included this document because it shows my ability to elaborate on my reasoning for my assessments; it shows my line of thinking. This is also the first time I was made to use scoring guides, which ended up benefiting the students during my teaching internship. In order to learn how to properly design scoring guides, I needed to complete this assignment and students will do better on tests if they understand what they're being graded on.
Artifact 3: EdTPA Assessments
This artifact is a reference for the assessments I wrote for my edTPA project during my teaching internship. I included these assessments because they contain multiple examples of my ability to design assessments for band students. These assessments positively impacted the students in my middle school teaching internship because they were tailored to their skills. The highest score on the two rubrics are designed to be just above the average abilities of the students so that the high achievers can rise to the challenge and the middle achievers can still get a good grade on the assignment.