Authentic project unit (Field Day) with embedded assessment tasks mapped to critical objectives

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Description

The Type 3 assessment is organized as a project unit (a class Field Day, including a cookie-selling sub-project) whose everyday activities double as assessment occasions. The guide specifies that "The instructional tasks within which the district-wide, grade levelassessment will occur should involve situations that will reflect ways in which mathematics is learnedand applied." A checklist maps each activity number to the critical objectives it assesses, and student pages are used at relevant times throughout the project rather than as a single test session.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Every student must be assessed on each activity; using the questions for whole-class discussion with a different child answering each one is not acceptable

Constraints

• If the school's actual field day plans differ, tasks may be changed, or another activity such as a holiday program substituted

Target Learners

• First-grade students

Target Goals

• Identifying needed information, using problem-solving strategies, skip counting, and developing addition and subtraction concepts from environmental situations

Claims

• Embed Assessment In Ongoing Instruction [+M]
• Project-based learning improves achievement [+M]

Related Patterns

Examples

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Key Sources

• Kasten, Margaret; Meiring, Steve; Mikesell, Anne. (1997). Mathematics. Competency-Based Education Assessment Series. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED417935

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title	Authentic project unit (Field Day) with embedded assessment tasks mapped to critical objectives
description	The Type 3 assessment is organized as a project unit (a class Field Day, including a cookie-selling sub-project) whose everyday activities double as assessment occasions.
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