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**Standard 8** ** Teachers know how to test for student progress. **  The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the pupil.


 * Evidence 1:** Excel Rubric

I developed a standards-based rubric for a unit on Microsoft Excel. I used this rubric to formally assess the students in my 8th grade Computer Applications class at the end of the Excel unit. I made this rubric available for students at the beginning of the unit so they knew what was expected of them. The students also were expected to use the rubric to assess themselves before turning in their final project.
 * Rationale 1:**


 * KSD**
 * 8.K.2 The teacher knows how to select, construct, and use assessment strategies and instruments appropriate to the learning outcomes being evaluated and to other diagnostic purposes.**

I constructed a standards-based rubric to assess the students on their final Excel project. It is standards-based and has the standards on it for my benefit in order to better assess student achievement according to state standards. However, the rubric also has student language on it so that the students know what is expected of them to meet the particular standards.


 * 8.S.3 The teacher uses assessment strategies to involve learners in self-assessment activities, to help them become aware of their strengths and needs, and to help them to set personal goals for learning.**

The students are required to use the same rubric to assess themselves before submitting their final project. This allows the students to use the rubric as a type of checklist to ensure everything is included that needs to be. The rubric is also a standards-based rubric using advanced, proficient, basic, and minimal qualifiers. This enables the students to set personal goals for their learning because they are able to determine what they want to include in order to achieve the result/grade they want.


 * 8.D.2 The teacher is committed to using assessment to identify student strengths and promote student growth rather than to deny students access to learning opportunities.**

The rubric is designed to identify student strengths and also weaknesses through the qualifiers and the comment section. Identifying the weaknesses allows the students the opportunity to go back and work on their weaker areas and submit the project again for a reassessment.