Santa Clara University

Task 3: Classroom Assessment of Academic Learning Goals

Overview

1. You will demonstrate your ability to select a unit of study and learning goal(s) and to plan standards-based, developmentally-appropriate student assessment activities for a group of students. In addition, you will demonstrate your ability to assess student learning and diagnose student needs from particular responses to the assessment activity.
2. You will demonstrate your ability to make assessment adaptations for two focus students: an English learner and a student with identified special needs.
3. You will score, review, and analyze evidence of student learning and will reflect on assessment implications.
4. You will submit your completed response, the assessment, selected student assessment responses and, if appropriate, scoring scales, rubrics, or scoring guides as artifacts.

Basic Information
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Directions
Checklist
Scoring Rubric

Worksheets
You must download and complete the following worksheet:

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Task 3 Assessing Learning

Examples
Your completed papers will be scored on a scale from 1 to 4, with 4 being the highest and 1 being the lowest. The following are completed and scored examples of papers submitted to fulfill the requirements of TPA Task 3.

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