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[Title of Your Digital Formative Assessment]
Topic Title Understanding Theme in Literature
Grade and Subject 8th Grade English
Lesson Learning Objective
Measured by the formative assessment for
this assignment; written in CPC format
With 80% accuracy, students will be able to recognize the topic
for a brief story or passage and provide evidence from the text to
back up their response.
State Standard CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.2 - Determine a theme or central
idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the
text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot,
and provide an objective summary of the text.
*Name of Technology Application,
Program, or Tool
Google Forms
*Development of your Formative
Assessment Questions
I made four multiple-choice questions and one short-answer
question for this formative test to assess the students'
comprehension of recognizing a short story's topic. I chose both
formats because they allow a balance between testing deeper
analysis (short answer) and basic memory (multiple-choice). I
made sure the questions weren't linguistic or culturally unfair and
avoided using complicated or confusing wording to keep
fairness.<I went over the questions to make sure they were clear
and correctly tested the learning objective by assessing
the<student's ability to identify and agree with a text's theme.
Link to Formative Assessment
Screenshots of the Digital
Formative Assessment You
Created
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Point Value and Answer Key This assessment is worth 5 points.
Answer key:
Question 1:<A (The correct answer)
Question 2:<C (The correct answer)
Question 3:<B (The correct answer)
Question 4:<D (The correct answer)
Question 5 (short answer):<Students should explain the theme
with evidence from the text. An example would be,"The theme is
friendship, as shown by the main character’s relationship with
their friend, who helps them through challenges."
Directions for Students 1) To finish the test, please have<your notes on literary themes<and
a computer, iPad, or Chromebook.
2) To access the test, click the provided link. If asked, you might
have to enter the join code.
3) Provide your best response to each question. Click "Submit"
once the assessment is finished. Before the next lesson, go over
your answers again if necessary and review any wrong answers.
Data Collection Google Forms will be used to collect data, and the multiple-choice
questions will be automatically graded. By looking at each
student's performance individually and as a class, I will be able to
find common areas of difficulty and watch how they develop. I
will adjust my instruction so that I focus on those areas if needed.
Eighty percent of students must correctly identify and describe the
text's theme to meet the success standards.
Feedback to a Student and
Parent/Guardian
Student Parent/Guardian
Method of feedback delivery:
Through Google Classroom
comment or through a private
message.
Method of feedback delivery:
Through email.
Example feedback statement:
You did a fantastic job
identifying the story's<theme.
Keep in mind to be clear about
how the actions of the
characters relate to the theme
while providing evidence to
support your response. Please
Example feedback statement:
Your child showed that they
understood the story's
them<effectively, but they still
need to practice using textual
evidence to back up their
responses. After reading the
paragraph again, I encourage
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inform me if you need help with
this!
students to attempt to relate
certain character actions to the
topic. Please stay in<contact
with me<if you need further
resources or assistance.
*Remediation Strategy for a
Struggling Student
I would provide a struggling<student extra one-on-one help by
going over the text's idea and going over examples from the story.
To assist students, develop their thinking skills, I recommend them
to focus on textual evidence that supports the theme<and
ask<questions. According to research, scaffolding, which means
breaking down a task into smaller steps, helps struggling students
develop their analytical and cognitive abilities (Piaget, 1976).
Remediation Strategy for the
Whole Class
If many<kids have trouble figuring out the theme, I will go over
the idea again with a different strategy, such as<group discussions
or visual organizers. With the help of these resources, students
may easily<visualize the topic and how it changes throughout the
story. To give students more practice, I would also assign a quick
group exercise in which they would have to work together to find
supporting evidence for the theme.
Practice Student Peer-Feedback
Date and Time:
My practice student scored 4 out of 5 on the assessment.
Student feedback:
1) Accessibility: The link was easy to access, and I didn’t have
any issues opening it.
2) Quality of Questions: The questions were clear and appropriate
for 8th grade. They focused on what we’ve been learning about
themes
3) Positives: I liked that there was a mix of multiple-choice and
short-answer questions. The short-answer let me explain my
thoughts.
4) Recommendation: Maybe add one more question to test deeper
understanding of how themes develop through the story.
Self-Reflection I'm going to change the questions to make sure they encourage
students to provide a deeper explanation of their answers in
response to my practice student's feedback. To push students to
look at how the theme shifts throughout the story, I'll also think
about including one more question, as suggested.
REFERENCES ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE
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References
Common Core State Standards Initiative. (2010).English Language Arts
Standards– Reading: Literature – Grade 8.
McMillan, J. H. (2023). Classroom assessments (8th ed.). Pearson Education
(US). https://libertyonline.vitalsource.com/books/9780138056957
Piaget, J. (1976).The grasp of the mind. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
