Task Three

Task 3: Assessing Learning

You will demonstrate your ability to select a unit of study and learning goal(s) and to plan standards-based, developmentally appropriate student assessment activities for a group of students. In addition, you will demonstrate your ability to assess student learning and diagnose student needs from particular student responses to the assessment activity. You will demonstrate your ability to make assessment adaptations for two focus students: an English learner and a student with identified special needs. You will also score, review, and analyze evidence of student learning and you will reflect on assessment implications of this evidence. Finally you will submit your completed response, the assessment(s), selected student assessment responses, and, if appropriate, scoring scales, rubrics, and/or scoring guides as artifacts. The following TPEs are measured in this task:

• Assessing student learning (TPE 3)
• Engaging and supporting students in learning (TPE 6, 7)
• Planning instruction and designing learning experiences for students (TPE 8, 9)
• Developing as a professional educator (TPE 13)

Resources 

• Task 3 Student Checklist

Exemplars

The following Case Documents will give you examples of teacher candidate responses. Each of the links will download a Word document to your desktop. Print out and read through the cases that pertain to your subject area and grade level.

• Multiple Subjects Preliminary Credential Candidates may select English / Language Arts, Mathematics, History / Social Science, or Science as the content area for Task 3 but must pick a subject area different than Task 2.
• Single Subject Preliminary Credential Candidates will work within their content area, but with a different class and a different topic than Task 2.

	Eng./ Lang.    Arts	Math	Science	History  Social Science	OTHER
Score Level 1
Score Level 2
Score Level 3
Score Level 4

Rubrics

Highlighted Statements from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing

Templates

Blank Task 3 Assessment Document
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