23. “Students have mastered content
when they demonstrate a thorough
understanding as evidenced by
doing something substantive with the
content beyond merely echoing it”
—Rick Wormeli
242. Suggestion:
Practice a few times before
you actually assess students.
Give them 10 possible scenarios
a couple of weeks ahead of
time to practice and reduce
stress.
248. Rubrics are a great tool to
set expectations and
measure achievement
against those expectations
249. Listening/Reading
Comprehension
Beginner Novice Intermediate Proficient Advanced
Student is unable to Student is rarely able Student is able to Student is able to
understand spoken/ to understand Student is understand spoken / understand spoken /
written language spoken /written sometimes able to written language written language
appropriate to their language appropriate understand spoken / appropriate to their appropriate to their
level. Little to no to their level, though written language level consistently, but level consistently and
knowledge of some knowledge of appropriate to their is unable to infer is able to infer
vocabulary items is vocabulary items is level. meaning not meaning not
evident. evident. explicitly stated. explicitly stated.