1. Objectives and Assessments
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2. Objectives
Your objectives need to have four components - Audience
(A), Behavior (B), Condition (C), and Degree (D).
This is one version of how to write objectives. Here is an
example of an objective written using this format:
Given the poem "Out Out" by Robert Frost,
students will identify instances of
personification with 80% accuracy.

3. Avoid These in Objectives
Behavioral objectives aimed at things such as student
participation or on-task behavior. These are not the point of
the lesson and should not be listed.
Using learn, understand, recognize or other words like
this. You cannot measure these. These are words you can use
with goals, but the are inappropriate for objectives.
Packing more than one skill/verb into an objective.

4. Create Assessments
 Create your assessments after you have your goals and objectives
 You may assess speaking, writing, and oral performance, and you
can assess these in multiple ways:
Teacher-constructed tests (multiple choice, fill in the blank, short
answer, etc)
Observation checklists (you might use this if you want to assess
student ability to follow oral directions)
Rubrics (I have more information below on this)
 Design the curriculum after that

5. Rubrics
Because you have to include rubric in every lesson plan, I’ll spend a
little time talking about things to do and things to avoid.

6. Not All Things Are Equal

7. Avoid Scoring All Categories the Same
From: http://dx.cooperhewitt.org/resources/lessonplan/americas-favorite-landmarks/

8. Weight Your Rubrics
x0.2 = 0.8
x0.6 = 2.4
x0.05 = 0.2
x0.05 = 0.2
x0.1 = 0.4
Total = 4
From: http://dx.cooperhewitt.org/resources/lessonplan/americas-favorite-landmarks/

9. Unweighted Example
3
4
2
1
3
13/20 = 65%

10. Weighted Example
3 x0.2 = 0.6
4
x0.6 = 2.4
2 x0.05 = 0.1
1
x0.05 = 0.05
3 x0.1 = 0.3
Total = 3.45
Your Weighted Score: 3.45/4 = 0.8625*100 = 86.25%

11. A Few Resources
Here are a few sites pertaining to rubrics:
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/rubrics.htm (brief
rubric review)
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php (online rubric
creator)
https://www.e-
education.psu.edu/facdev/id/assessment/rubrics/rubric_buil
der.html (rubric builder you can save and use offline)

12. Additional Things to Avoid When Assessing
Do not include phrases like "attended to the
lesson" or "student paid attention during lesson"
in the assessment.
Do not assess creativity unless that is what you have
taught.

13. Additional Things to Avoid cont.
Do not assess participation unless that is part of the
lesson.
Do not assess "appropriate" tool usage or
"correct" tool usage.
Do not assess “neatness”.

14. REMEMBER
You should always assess all of your objectives, and
if it’s not something in your objectives, you should
not be assessing it.
Once you have your objectives and assessments, build your lesson. This is
when you will look for different media to assist students meet the objectives.