Chapter+6


 * Date: || July 5, 2012 || Title of Selection: || Written Response Assessment ||

Develop short answer items and scoring guides. Develop extended written response items and scoring guides. Use written response assessments formatively, as teaching tools. Structure written response assessments so that students can use the results to self-assess and set goals for further learning. ||
 * Learning target(s) this selection addresses:

Written response assessments allow us to see into not only a student’s knowledge, but also conceptual understanding, and reasoning abilities. Through this method, teachers can assess student’s abilities to infer, analyze, compare, determine cause and effect, and evaluate information. This method does a more proficient job assessing a student to real life situations. 2) If a wildfire breaks out on the prairie, why would small burrowing animals have an advantage over large animals? (5.10A)(5.2G) 3) Structures and functions specific to a species help them live and survive within their environment. How do the plants of the dessert survive the harsh conditions? (5.10A) || 1)General Rubric 2) Task-specific List 3) General Rubric ||
 * What this selection illustrates about my learning/why I chose this selection:**
 * SHORT ANSWER ITEM AND SCORING GUIDE **
 * **Short Answer Item** || **Scoring Guide Option**  ||
 * 1) Instincts are behaviors that organism have inherited from their parents. Name **__one example__** of an instinctual behavior and **__explain__** why it is an instinctual behavior. (5.10B)(5.2G

2- Conclusions and explanations are valid and fully supported with details. 1- Conclusions and explanations are generally valid and supported with detail. 0- Conclusions and explanations are neither valid or supported with detail.
 * ** Scoring Guide ** ||
 * General Rubric :

Task Specific List: 2 – Student explains in detail about where burrows are located and how they can protect animal from fire. 1- Student either explains where burrows are located and how they can protect animal from fire. 0- Student does not explain where burrows are located and how they can protect an animal from fire. ||