| Artifact:
Spelling Assessment
Competencies:
Competency 12.2- “Use computers and
other technologies effectively and appropriately to collect information
on student learning using a variety of methods”
Competency 12.5- "Organizational
and management strategies that support active student involvement, inquiry,
and collaboration"
Competency 13.1- "Use media and technology
to address differences in children's learning and performance"
Alignments with INTASC Standards:
This artifact is a spelling assessment that will inform the teacher
of how first grade students learn and develop spelling strategies so that
the teacher can provide opportunities that support the child’s intellectual,
social, and personal development needs based on their cognitive level (INTASC
Standard 2).This activity
provides assessment on a variety of levels for learners and offers a game
to help students get further help on words or concepts that they do not
yet understand.It encourages
students to look back on prior knowledge of vocabulary recognition and
test to see what level of spelling ability the child is on.This
is a useful tool to see what students know and what they need to know.
This artifact also uses assessment strategies by checking for abilities
in spelling in an array of words to encourage teachers to adjust instruction
in order to make it more helpful for students. It uses these assessment
strategies to inform the teacher and child of the reader's strength in
reading and spelling and what needs to be worked on (INTASC
Standard 8).
Context:
This spelling assessment artifact was created during my senior block
for the purpose of testing a variety of students to see what spelling level
they are on.The artifact then focuses
on ways to improve the spelling abilities for lower level first grade spellers.An
assessment was completed on each child and a description is given to explain
why each child is on a particular spelling level.A
word sort was also created to help students on a lower level first grade
level to allow them to gain a better understanding of words and sorts at
this age level.
Impact:
In meeting competency 12.2, 12.5, and 13.1
this assessment can be word proecessed so that students are able to scroll
down the screen to read words. Reading the words as a word document
or as flip cards allows the to assess students' knowledge to gain an understanding
of the different speeling levels of all students in the class. The
computer provides a way for teachers to organize the words and the material
so that testing is more effective and reliable. Everyday we
are assessing our students for their abilities in particular subject areas.As
an elementary school teacher I will constantly be giving and creating assessments
to test my students’ abilities.Therefore,
this spelling assessment will be an extremely important tool in my class
because I can use it to test the skills of all students and create word
sorts that help to better understand more advance words.I
plan to use spelling assessments quite often in my classroom so this information
will become extremely important in the development of material in my classroom |
