How the Samples are Organized

There are five parts to each sample:

• identification of the prescribed learning outcomes
• overview
• planning for assessment and evaluation
• defining the criteria
• assessing and evaluating student performance

This part identifies the organizer or organizers and the specific prescribed learning outcomes selected for the sample.

Overview

This is a summary of the key features of the sample.

Planning for Assessment and Evaluation

This part outlines:

• background information to explain the classroom context
• instructional tasks
• the opportunities that students were given to practise learning
• the feedback and support that was offered students by the teacher
• the ways in which the teacher prepared students for the assessment

This part illustrates the specific criteria (based on prescribed learning outcomes), the assessment task, and various reference sets.

Assessing and Evaluating Student Performance

This part includes:

• assessment tasks or activities
• the support that the teacher offered students
• tools and methods used to gather the assessment information
• the way the criteria were used to evaluate student performance

The samples on the following pages illustrate how a teacher might apply criterion-referenced evaluation in English Language Arts 8 to 10.

• Sample 1: Grade 8 Being a Teenager
  
• Sample 2: Grade 9 The Sporting Challenge
  
• Sample 3: Grade 9 Multiculturalism
  
• Sample 4: Grade 10 Romeo and Juliet
  

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