Brianna Larkin
Student Teaching Portfolio
Fall 2005

Artifact for Standard Five: Assessment

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Contact:
Brianna_Larkin@brown.edu

Evidence: Response to First Term Inventory

• Response to Student One
• Student One and Two Comments on my Response
• Response to Student Two

Description of Artifact:

After students documented their goals for next term and evaluated themselves on their performance for the first term, I recorded their goals and responded to each student. In these responses, students received their official term grade and a specific evaluation from the teacher about how they earned their term grade. Following receiving these responses, students had a homework assignment to write about my comments, whether they agreed with them and how they will use them next term.

Standards demonstrated by this artifact:

Assessment, Student as Learner

Reflection:

My responses and the student comments display the second and third step in our term grade conversation. By evaluating each students' goals and grades individually, I was able to help students pinpoint what they needed to do to improve both their grades and the skills they develop in the class. This conversation proved to be a valuable experience as many students did start improving their attendance and turning in the homework more often during the second term.