Kindergarten Assessment Holistic Rubric

Purpose of the Assessment

The purpose of this assessment is to assest the students on how their skills have been developing. Kindergarten students are known to have short attention span so using multiple choice and true false or happy/sad faces will keep their attention.  During the assessment, I will read all questions and choices so they can have the full opportunity to answer the questions properly. The essay question I chose for my kindergarten class is to write two sentenceson what a lion looks like in the wild describing its features, their color, if they are big or small, the kind of food they may eat. The second part of the essay question will ask the students where could a lion live. I gave them the beginning of the sentence, and they are to complete the sentence in their own words by sounding out the words on their own. True and false, or in my case happy and sad faces are short “modifies the materials, and scoring is easier”( Kubiszyn & Borich 2010, pp154). This test will allow me to monitor how the students may be processing the sounds by their answers.

Using multiple choice, and happy face/sad face questions will help to build the students confidence in testing. Multiple choice, though can be a handicap to the student can be easy to grade and for the purpose of this test, students should be able to differentiate between different beginning sounds to "weed out" the correct answers. Kubiszyn & Borish states that multiple choice questions enable you to measure behavior on the higher levels of taxonomy (pp 139) for this instance it is a good choice for a test for kindergartners.

Kubiszyn, T. & Borich, G. (2010). Educational Testing & Measurment: Classroom Application and Practice (9th ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

Tia Body Learning Outcome

                   

          Learning Outcomes for Kindergarten Language Arts

1.  Students will be introduced to the letter Ll in order to become familiar with the Ll sound as a class in circle time.

2. Students will  be paired up with other students to learn the sound of the letter Ll and the alpha friend Leo Lion in order to choose items from a pile of objects that have the beginning sound Ll.

3.Students will communicate words that begin with the letter Ll in order to complete an assessment based on what they have learned thus far.

 


Assessment Questions

1. Using the crayon color orange, circle the word that has the same beginning sound as Leo Lion.
            A.  Bat
            B.  Lamb
            C.   Car
              

Using your orange crayon, draw a happy face :-) if the word has the same beginning sound as Leo Lion. If the word does not have the same beginning sound draw a :-(.

   2.                     lit         3.                     lamb      

4.                    cat      5.                     dog  

6.                     left

Using your Blue crayon, circle the correct word that best completes the sentence.
4. Leo Lion climbed up the                                       to lick the ice cream
             A. Light Bulb
             B. Lock
             C. Ladder

Essay Question

Write a sentence describing what a lion looks like. Where are some places a lion can live? Complete the sentence on the given lines below.
        
8. A lion looks like 
          
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9. A lion could live

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When  you are finished you may color the following pictures that match the words used in the test.

  Light BulbLadder

Lion