State Assessment and
Inquiry -Based Teaching

Opening Activity:

• Reflection Guide

Fact or Fiction

• Create Fact/Fiction cards
• As each screen is displayed, each teacher showes the side of the card that matches their thoughts
• Discussion

Read It! Draw It! Solve It!

• Take a problem card
• Solve the prolem
• List the Knowledge and Process that students would have to know in order to solve that problem
• Share thoughts and compare to other problems
• Reflect
  • What could teacher do to change the focus from a competition to get the right answer to the goal of everyone understanding?
  • How could teachers use what they see and hear students do with these questions to drive their instruction?
  • How are these types of questions similar to an inquiry-based activity or WebQuest?

Learning Experiences

• Two sheets for recording ideas: Knowledge, Performance
• Identify learning tasks that could be done to enhance student success in Knowledge Assessments and Performace Assessments
• What does this information suggest about the types of learning experiences that will be most beneficial to students?

Match Game

• Elementary Game Resources
  • Walenhorst, S. (2003). Monarch Magic.
    http://rhe.leesummit.k12.mo.us/swalkenhorst/monarchmagicwq/index.html
  • Gann, C. (2004). Between a Rock and a Hard Place. http://teachers.emints.org/gannw/rocks/index.html
  • Crites, C. (2002). Trading Spaces.
    http://www.ecarter.k12.mo.us/dept/elementary/fourthgrade/ccrites/tradingplacesindex.html
  • Kuehnle, J. Lost...I'm Lost I Tell You! http://missouri.emints.org/area3/imlost/
  • Powell, T. (2002). After Skylark: Sarah's Story Continues.
    http://www.cardinals.k12.mo.us/Elemhome/tpowell/skylarkwebquest/index.html
• Secondary Game Resources
  • Carcia, J. (2000). Franchise.
    http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/memorial/franchise/index.htm
  • Shirk, K. (2001) Trilingual Packaging Dilemma.
    http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/x/jxz8/Student_Webquests/Shirk/questks/index.htm
  • Gluth, S. (2004). A Balancing Act: Sharing Our World with the Grizzly Bear.
    http://kingedward.epsb.ca/grizzlywebquest/index.htm
  • Fehrenbacker, T. (2000). The Amistad Case: A Mock Trial.
    http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/hoover/amistad/
  • Herbert. T. (2001). Lagoon Lament: Can't We All Get Along.
    http://home.cfl.rr.com/mrshebert/Lagoon/index.htm
• In an Inquiry-based lesson, how do you know students are getting factual information that will enable them to answer fact-based questions on a state assessment?

Analysis of State Assessment Examples

• Sample MEA Questions http://www.maine.gov/education/mea/mearelitems.htm
• Reflection
  • What connections exist between these questions and inquiry-based learning?

Maine Resources

• MAP (Maine Assessment Portfolio) http://www.maptasks.org/

• Maine Educational Assessment http://www.state.me.us/education/mea/meahome.htm

• Maine Learning Results http://www.maine.gov/education/lres/

• MLTI Assessment Page
  http://www.mainelearns.org/category_detail.php?cat_id=171
  http://www.mainelearns.org/index

• LAD (Maine Local Assessment Development) http://www.state.me.us/education/lsalt/LAD

• Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance http://www.mmsa.org/

• Maine Assessment Cooperative http://mac.cnshome.com/index.cfm?section=1