Brianna Larkin
Student Teaching Portfolio
Fall 2005

Artifact for Standard 5: Assessment

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Evidence:

• Rubric Student 1
• Bias Chart Student 1
• Rubric Student 2
• Bias Chart Student 2
• Rubric Student 3
• Bias Chart Student 3

Description of Artifact:

The artifacts are rubrics my co-teachers and I used to evaluate graphic organizers that the students filled out to find bias within their media source. The student work is included along with each rubric. The assignment was meant for the teachers to assess whether or not students understood how to evaluate their final project media sources for bias.

Standard the Artifact Addresses:

Assessment

Reflection:

We spent between 3-5 days working with students on learning how to find bias in news and media sources. We taught them different ways a source could be biased (through source control, headline, names and titles, etc.) and after two different activities, we were still unsure how many students were able to use these categories to find bias within their own sources. We gave out rubrics and graphic organizers for students to fill in examples of bias within their source and explain why they picked each example. The rubrics evaluated the students based on the accuracy of their example, how they explained the example, and how much effort they put into completing the graphic organizer. After assessing this work, we were able to see that many students still had trouble finding bias. We decided to give them more practice with this concept and addressed bias again with their final broadcast presentations on the last day of class.