Secondary Assessment Tools

Demonstrate mastery of content knowledge and process skills by knowing in advance the criteria for assessment.

Product Assessments

• Bulletin Board Display
• Business Letter
• Investigating a Controversial Issue
• Integrated Task: Controversial Issue
• Editorial/letter to the Editor
• Multimedia Presentation
• Newspaper Articles
• Oral Report with Visuals
• Designing a Webpage
• Poster
• Scrapbook
• Skit
• Slide Show or Photo Essay
• Video Production
• Audio Production

Process Assessments

• Class Discussion - Listening for Details
• Idea Web/Graphic Organizer
• Group Work
• Panel Discussion
• Student Self-Assessment Rubric for Research Module
• Teacher Assessment Rubric for Student Research Module

Reading/Writing Assessments (all online)

• Brief Constructed Response (BCR)
• Extended Constructed Response (ECR)
• Expository (Nonfiction) Writing
• Analyzing Information from Reading
• Language in Use (MSDE Scoring Rule)
• Locating Information from Reading
• Reading Rubric (MSDE Generic Rubric)
• Writing to Inform (MSDE Scoring Rubric)
• Writing to Inform (MSDE Scoring Rule)
• Writing for Personal Expression (MSDE Scoring Rubric)
• Writing to Express Personal Ideas (MSDE Scoring Rule)
• Writing to Persuade (MSDE Scoring Rubric)
• Writing to Persuade (MSDE Scoring Rule)
• Writer's Guide for Nonfiction