Write down all you know about essay questions including specific requirements and criteria for evaluation?

Rapid Writing

Restricted and Extended Type Performance Assessment Tasks

Restricted-TypeThe task is structured and specific. Requires little skill and relatively short responses

• Construct a bar graph from the data provided.• Talk in French about what is on a menu.• Read an article from a newspaper and answer questions.• Review a zoning map of a city and indicate changes that would encourage more commercial development.• Flip a coin ten times. Predict what the next ten flips would be. Explain why.• Listen to the news and explain whether you believe the stories are biased.• Construct a poster that explains the parts of flowers.• Write a paper about the importance of protecting forest from being converted to farmland.• Write examples of good and poor multiple-choice questions.

•Construct a PowerPoint presentation.•Design a playhouse and estimate the cost of materials and labour.•Plan a trip to another country; include the budget and itinerary.•Conduct a historical re-enactment.•Diagnose and repair a car problem.•Design an advertising campaign for a new or existing product.•Publish a newspaper.•Design a park.•Create a commercial.•Write and perform a song.•Prepare a plan for dealing with waste materials.•Design and carry out a study to determine which grocery store has the lowest prices.•Plan and install a new stereo system in a car.

Restricted and Extended Type Performance Assessment TasksExtended-Type

The task is complex, elaborate and time-consuming. Requires thought, reflection and revision

What IS a good essay question?

How do we construct effective essay questions?

Does the question fit the intended answer?

• Are essential content and skills targets integrated?

•Are multiple targets included?

• Is the task authentic?

• Is the task feasible?

• Are multiple solutions and paths possible?

• Is the nature of the task clear?

• Is the task stimulating and challenging?

• Are scoring criteria included?

• Are constraints for completing the task included?

Tips to Remember when Constructing

Essay Questions

Pass It On and

Save the Last Word for

Me

What would be the ideal job for you? Use specific details to explain your choice.

Are cell phones necessary in teenagers’ lives?

If you could learn how to do something new, what would it be and why? Use specific details to explain your choice.

Explain why it is important to learn about other cultures. Use specific details to support your answer.

Is it a good idea for high school students to have a part-time job?

Extended Response Opinion

Questions:

Write an extended response opinion essay question. (Make up an original question individually)

Pass your question on to the person on your right.Analyze and comment on the question and write an answer to the question.

Pass your answer on to the person on your right.Analyze the question as well and evaluate the answer.

Finally, pass the paper back to the question originator.

Read the comments, answers and analysis and revise your question as necessary.

Write a reflection on how you would write the question differently next time.

Get in groups of

3

Instructions:

Comments?

Questions?

Concerns?

Debrief

Intermission

Holistic vs

Analytic Scale Rubrics

HolisticUses overall categories Arrive at a single score Overall impression

AnalyticMultiple criteriaReceives a separate scoreBreakdown of task

Rubric Activity

Review HolisticAdvantages Disadvantages Uses

Simplicity

Summary Rating

Less detail

Difficult to decide on score

Summative

AnalyticAdvantages Disadvantages Uses

Diagnostic information

Student strengths and weaknesses

Time Formative

ReviewExtend the application of each type of rubric to extended response questions in your subject area.

Consider the weighting of each criteria from the achievement chart