Assignment 3

In unit 3, you are creating a Blueprint for your Unit 4 Summative Assessment. A blueprint is a plan for what you will create. This week is ONLY the blueprint. You are NOT creating an assessment this week. You are breaking down your "I can" statements from your unpacking document from week 1. These should be the EXACT statements from MDE. That will ensure you have the correct academic vocabulary and verbs needed.

Unit 3 is about understanding what you students will need to "do" to prove mastery at various levels for the chosen standard. It is imperative that we understand what our students must "do" before we attempt to create assessments. So, this week is a planning week. You are planning for how many questions you will create on your summative assessment in week 4. Do not create any questions at this time. You are only planning.

There will be 2 sections to this assignment. They are both detailed below. For this example, we will be looking at a math standard.

Standard: 3.OA.3 Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

Section 1: Breaking down your “I can” statements

The purpose of this section is to break down each” I can” statement into smaller pieces. This is to ensure that you plan to create questions that address all parts of each competency. Teachers often overlook skills when a competency has more than 1 part.

1. Refer to your approved Unit 1 Unpacking. You will use the “I can” statements.

2. Identify the verb to noun relationships. Many statements have multiple verbs or nouns. You can see in the competencies below that my verbs are highlighted green and the nouns they relate to are in red.

These are my “I can” statements:

· Solve a variety of problem solving situations including the product, the group size, or the number of groups.

· Represent a word problem using a picture, an equation with a symbol for the unknown number, or in other ways.

· Solve real-life multiplication and division problems where the product/quotient is greater than 5.

3. Create a chart that breaks down each I can statement (Competency) into its smaller pieces and identify the DOK level. Notice you the first I can statement from step 2 had three (3) verb-to-noun relationships, so in the chart below, there are 3 lines to represent each piece.

You may also wish to further break down each competency and list exactly the types of questions and DOK levels you plan to create to address each part of the competency. The example given in Canvas Unit 3 has this given.

Section 2: Plan for how many questions to create and at what DOK level

Once you have completed the chart above, you will plan what you will create on your week 4 assessment. The purpose of the chart above is to ensure you know exactly what types of questions you need to create and to what DOK level you need to represent for mastery. Many of your “I can” statements, as you can see, contain more than 1 part. The first one for this standard had 3 parts, the second had 3, and the third had 2. As a teacher, we must ensure we do not miss any part. So, that is why we create the chart before we plan.

1. Create a chart in which you rewrite the full I can statement

2. Determine how many questions we will create at each DOK level ensuring you reach the required level. You should have questions at various levels. The majority of your questions should be in DOK 2 and DOK 3 combined.

3. Ensure you have a minimum of 25 total questions. 

Total: 26

Reminders:

· Competencies that have multiple parts may need more questions.

· You should plan to create questions at various DOK levels for all competencies.

· You must have a minimum of 25 questions.

· This is your plan for week 4, and you must create an assessment that matches this plan.

· It is understood that while you are creating the assessment next week, you may see a change needs to be made to this blueprint.

· You MUST revise this blueprint to fully align to the assessment if changes are made during week 4. Submit the revised blueprint with the created summative assessment in week 4.

· Your final week 7 rubric will look for full alignment between the blueprint and the summative assessment.