4+-+Assessments

=== Teachers will use the following assessments to meet the instructional goals. They will analyze data from student testing to evaluate instruction. The instruction will continually be evaluated to determine the students' areas of strengths and weaknesses. ===

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 * Benchmark testing will be utilized at the end of each grading period. Teachers will use the same benchmark tests to establish his/her areas of strengths and weaknesses. Teachers will better understand which SOL objectives they teach effectively and areas where they are not connecting with the students. Areas of strength will be shared in department meetings to ensure collaboration among teachers.


 * For the second nine-week assessment, students will explain one hundred (100) of the one hundred seventeen (117) terms listed in Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” for an ‘A.’ For a ‘B,’ students will define 90 -99 items; and for a ‘C,’ students will define between 80 – 89 terms. [//If a student makes below an 80, s/he will go back and define missed/omitted terms and be tested on those items.//]


 * Students will take SOL Prep 1 in the computer lab using CPS Responders to input answers. The disaggregation of data will take place. Any areas in which at least 30% of students did poorly will be quickly retaught. Students will then return to the computer lab to take SOL Prep 2 (1 month later). Hopefully, we will achieve 70%.


 * End of lesson assessments on each area of need. After assessment is graded those that do not make the benchmark will go to smaller groups for remediation of the material at a given time other than that of the regular class time.


 * Students will take the Virginia Standards of Learning Released Test for World History II. From this test, the teacher will score the students according to the provided SOL grading scale. From this assessment, data will be gathered based upon which particular strand students need extra help.

==** Oliva Model of Curriculum Development: ** ==  Operational Phase: Evaluation of Instruction