PLC_Debriefing_Draft for Holyoke Science – Hilyard
My CoP is a group of middle school science teachers. We get together once a month to discuss and create sample DDMs (District Determined Measures) to test out this year before the DDMs are required to have in science by fall 2014. We have set up groups of teachers who will work together on identifying the big ideas in each unit for each grade. Each team will then form the pre/post assessments based on these big ideas. We agreed that the pre/post assessments should be concise (5-10 questions) and should be administered on a free web-based system called assistments. We also decided that all questions will be multiple choice with the requirement of having a few blank lines to explain why they choose that particular answer. If the student cannot explain why they choose that answer, it will be marked incorrect even if they chose the correct multiple choice response. This will hopefully give us more accurate results and a wider range when we compare pre/post test data since we will be eliminating the answers of students who happened to guess the correct multiple choice response.
The debriefing form is attached above.