Evaluate: The Summative Assessment 1.1.3

Evaluate:  The Summative Assessment 1.1.3

I use a service for testing called quia.com.

Validity- To ensure that the summative assessment is valid, my curriculum group meets to develop common assessments.  This professional collaboration helps to keep the test items focused on uncovering what a student has mastered as well as areas of concern.  We begin with the AKS- Academic Skills and knowledge. (Gwinnett County's form of the State Science Standards)  Using vetted resources, our Professional Learning Community develops test questions designed to test the student knowledge of the content.  We track data on each test item.

Reliability- The tests are scaled with DOK and aligned with the curriculum standards.  We track the questions with problems and improve them every year.  This test has had 3 revisions since its inception and is continuously being improved and adjusted to meet student needs and to align more closely with the standards.

Security- The test security is relatively good.  Students cannot access their test unless they log in to the secure website to take the test.   I have the option of making the test questions viewable or not after the test, so the content is able to be kept secure.  Information regarding the time the test began and ended is recorded along with the scores, attempts, and missed questions.  This information keeps me well informed in case a student tries to take the test twice.  Student information is not visible to anyone without secure login, which keeps the student safe.

An example test is attached.  There are dynamic graphics associated with the test, and available to be viewed in the attached PDF file.   Summative-Assessment_Example   The viewer would be better served to open the attachment than to try to view the test without graphics as it would take 16 pages to expand below.