Bellingham School District 8^th Grade Technology Performance Assessment

Directions for the Test Administrator

Part 1 - Prior to the project:

Teams Assigned to this Project:

You will receive from Library Media Services the names of 8th graders randomly selected from your building. Names will be drawn - 6 students from 4 CORES. You will randomly place students into teams. Students who would ordinarily be exempt from standardized testing will not be included.

Inform students:

Students should know that they are going to be involved in this project 1-2 days in advance. To diffuse anxiety that might develop, emphasize that this is more of a project than a test: "You have been selected to work on a technology project." Tell students that there will, however, be some rules to work with to make the project uniform for all district 8th graders.

Project & Team Folders

Prior to the assessment, check to be sure that the "8^thAssessment2002" directory is set up on Drive P, as well as subdirectories labeled Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, and Team 4. Delete last year's files from the P drive team folders.

Templates

Check to see that all templates related to the project are located in the Music folder. The folder will contain a spreadsheet - Music Data..xls, and a presentation template - Music Industry Presentation Template.ppt. Check the properties on all templates to be sure they are set at Read Only. Give yourself enough time before the project to troubleshoot. Be sure that students will be able to open files and save their work in the folders on Drive p:

Make Schedule

A schedule should be created. It will be posted on each computer so that all students can read it easily during the project.

Print Directions

Print copies of the task given in Student task introduction.doc for each team.

Print copies of the directions given in Student directions.doc for each team.

Prepare Observation Materials

Each observer needs a copy of the Analysis Rubric and a copy of the Observation of Teamwork Skills for each team.

One suggestion for implementing this would be to assign a color to each team--(ex: blue, red, yellow, green). Provide each observer with a set of folders; one folder for each team. Each folder should contain two observation sheets: Analysis Rubric and Observation of Teamwork Skills.

Observers will use the Persuasiveness Rubric to evaluate presentations of completed projects.

Part 2 - Introduction:

Read the scenario to the students

Unlike the CTBS, this part is not closely scripted. Students may ask many questions. You should guide them through the opening of templates and clarify directions. Hand out copies of the directions given in Student task introduction.doc and Student directions.doc for each team. Hand out copies of the rubrics on which students will be evaluated.

Go over the following rules:

1. There should be no communication between teams during the project work time.

2. The administrator will help with technical questions and directions only.

3. Student performance will be measured on their team's ability to work with each other, their ability to gather information, analyze it and then present it in a way that persuades others.

4. Students should frequently save their work to their team folder on drive p:, especially before each break and 5 minutes before final presentations are to begin.

Part 3 - Completion

Analysis of Student Performance

Observing teachers and library media specialists will meet to discuss the results, view the presentation and score teams based upon the rubric during the second ½ of the day. LMS will have another “sub-day” to write up the final report.