Creating Exemplars

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Creating Exemplars

• Roy Parteno
• August 15th, 2001

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Exemplars

• The Grade 9 Exemplar project (Technological
  Education) is the source of the content presented
  here
• The extension will be a focus on how to develop
  your own set of exemplars for classroom use

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Agenda

• Information about Exemplars
• (10 minutes)
• Group work time
• 30 minutes
• Group presentation and discussion
• 20 minutes

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Reasons for exemplars documents

• To show the characteristics of student work at
  each of the four levels of achievement for Grade
  9
• promote greater consistency in the assessment of
  student work across the province

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Reasons for exemplars documents

• provide an approach to improving student learning
  by demonstrating the use of clear criteria
  applied to student work in response to a clearly
  defined assessment task

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Reasons for exemplars documents

• show the connections between what students are
  expected to learn (the curriculum expectations)
  and how their work can be assessed using the
  levels of achievement described in the curriculum
  policy document for the subject

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Components of exemplar documents

• A description of the performance task, as well as
  the curriculum expectations related to the task
• The task-specific assessment chart, or rubric
• Two samples of student work for each of the four
  levels of achievement

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Components of exemplar documents

• Teachers Notes, which provide some details on
  the level of achievement for each sample
• Comments/Next Steps, which offer suggestions for
  improving achievement
• A Teacher Package that was used by teachers in
  administering the task