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Summative Assessment Analysis

After teaching the instructional sequence and administering the summative assessment,
analyze student performance by responding to the following questions:

Provide a data table, chart, or spreadsheet that shows the impact of your teaching this
unit on student learning.

Compare your pre-assessment data table, chart or spreadsheet with the post
assessment.

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Pre-Assessment Data:

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Post Assessment:

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Analyze the performance of the ENTIRE CLASS on the selected summative assessment:
Based on the performance of the class, as seen on the charts above, it is clear that the students

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have really grown tremendously with their writing skills. In both areas (ideas and word choice) the
students growth from the pre assessment to the summative is a very large amount. In the preassessment, most students were on the 3 score (developing) which was expected. After the lessons that
were taught and the practice that took place, the students post assessment scores proved success in
their learning. The greater majority of the class were able to achieve a score of 4 (capable), 5
(experienced), or 6 (exceptional) in their adventure narrative on demand summative assessment.
Identify 1 (one) student whose progress in the instructional sequence was typical and
1(one) student whose progress was atypical. (These do not have to be the students you
chose as typical or differentiated.)
Explain how each of these students progressed across the instructional sequence and in the
summative assessment.
One student who showed typical progress did not receive any intervention at all. In their preassessment, they only scored a 2 (emerging) in both ideas and word choice. Throughout the unit, this
student showed progress and at times they showed a lack of progress as well. During the lessons,
sometimes it would seem that they understood the lesson and were ready to apply it to their writing
and other times the student would get confused and not understand what was needed to achieve the
learning outcome. However, with little to no support, this student excelled during the post-assessment
by receiving a close to perfect score of experienced in both ideas and word choice. Based on their
classwork and post-assessment, Im confident that this student has made the expected progress that
they should have made.
A student who I differentiated for is actually one of the students I chose as differentiated. On the
pre-assessment, they scored a 1 (beginning) on both ideas and word choice. With differentiation
throughout the unit, they were able to increase their score on the post-assessment to 4 (capable) in
word choice and 5 (experienced) in ideas. Outside of the unit, this student does have reading difficulties
and receives intervention support for this issue. When taking the post-assessment, this student had
myself scribe for her as she articulated her thoughts and put them into a story as I wrote. This assisted
her in great ways so that she would not get frustrated with spelling or formulating words on paper and

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could just create her story in words for me to write.
Analyze the effectiveness of this summative assessment instrument.
If it was not as effective as you wanted, how would you improve it to correct any
weaknesses?
I believe this summative assessment proved to be effective. Due to the curriculum set, they try to
stray away from any given prompt as a pre or post assessment and encourage these on demand pieces.
It proved to be effective because all of the students were able to apply as much creativity to their
summative assessment writing since in an on demand anything goes. This assists the students to think
freely and apply their new learned skills to their writing in a natural way. While they of course need to
relate it to the unit (adventure) they can make it whatever motivates them to write the best they can.
To improve any weaknesses, I would give students the same amount of time in other writing
blocks to write freely. The troubles with this summative assessment is the students often feel rushed
and that they cannot complete what they would like in a short on-demand piece. By practicing getting
their thoughts on paper in a timed situation, it may provide them with the proper practice so they feel
prepared and understand what they can and need to accomplish in the set amount of time. Without
giving them a set amount of time in various lessons prior to this, it affects the students motivation if
they feel they will not do their best work in the time allotted.