Assessments

Formative Assessments

Empty Outlines: Students can arrange all of their knowledge in this assessment. This will help students better organize the information they have learned as well as help teachers find out how well students have understood the subject matter.

Minute Paper: This assessment will be good for students since it forces students to recap on what they have done and to also think further about what questions they still have.

The Analytic Memo: This assessment can be used near the end of our unit as an assessment in which students will write a one-page analysis on the cost of treating infections versus the cost of vaccinating the population. This memo will be written to the State Health Board, which decides what to spend tax dollars on. Students will be required to include facts and statistics in their memo.

Content, Form and Function Outlines: This assessment could be used to evaluate an article on disease or any new technology found having to do with bacterial or viral infections. This assessment can evaluate if the student understood the content that they read and the purpose of the article. Because scientific articles are sometimes difficult to understand this assessment would be very helpful.

Categorizing Grid: This assessment will be a useful classroom assessment technique in which students will have to sort similar objects concerning disease, spread of disease, and methods of treatment together. This method of sorting will force students to recall what they have learned and connect ideas of different concepts that they otherwise wouldn't think have any kind of connection.

One-Sentence Summary: This assessment can be used by students to answer who, what, where, when, how, and why diseases spread. The teacher will be able to assess which areas the students have a firm understanding of and which areas the students are struggling with.

Word Journal: This assessment would force students to put together all information learned from a given day/week and would help the students in connecting seemingly different concepts together. Getting the bigger picture can often keep the student focused on the key information and the word journal is a great assessment for this purpose.

Application Cards: This assessment could be used in our project very easily and be very productive. Our unit can be applied to real world ideas in every lesson and it is a great idea to have students think about real world applications. This assessment gives the students an opportunity to place the knowledge that they learn in a category and correlate it to something in real life.

Project Rubric

 

	Possible Points	Points Earned
Homework (4 pts each)	20
Quizzes (5 pts each)	20
Lab -Participation (5 pts) -Write-Up (15 pts)	20
Final Project -Presentation (10 pts) -Write-Up (10 pts)	20
Test	20