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Performance Based Assessments

Completing PBAs

Every good instructional program should include a set of objectives, learning activities, and assessments, aligned together in a coordinated way. The core assessments for the ILT program are found in a set of performance-based assessments or PBAs.

  • PBA 1 Praxis exam (required of K12 teachers beginning January 2006; not required of students in ID track)
  • PBA 2 Trend analysis
  • PBA 3 Early portfolio
  • ADDIE PBA 4.1 Needs assessment
  • ADDIE PBA 4.2 Design rationale
  • ADDIE PBA 4.3 Development
  • ADDIE PBA 4.4 Implementation/formative evaluation
  • ADDIE PBA 4.5 Student assessment/summative evaluation
  • PBA 5 Action inquiry
  • PBA 6 Management report
  • PBA 7 Leadership report

The first Performance Based Assessment is only required of K12 teachers; all students must complete the remaining PBAs.

The table below shows how our PBAs are integrated into ILT coursework. Some PBAs are covered in only one course; others span across multiple courses. You are responsible for passing all PBAs by the time you submit your professional portfolio.

Performance-Based Assessments in the ILT Program (Fall 2005)

Assessment Title When Administered

1. State PLACE exam. Expected date: January 2006. Only required of K12 teachers.

End of program, following coursework

2. Trend Analysis. Report on a trend or issue affecting practice, as evidence of inquiry for understanding.

IT 6750 Trends & Issues

Early course

3. Early Portfolio including:

  • Goals/philosophy statement.
  • Résumé
  • Presentation
  • Initial self-assessment on ILT competencies
  • Plan of study, including plans for field experience

IT 6750 Trends & Issues (evening program) or IT 5610 Principles for Designing Multimedia (Saturday program)

Within first year

 

4-1. ADDIE Needs Assessment

Part of complex ADDIE assessment. Students engage in planning related to a learning or performance problem, including analysis of causes and possible solutions.

IT 5110 Instructional Development & Production (early course)

Other design & development courses

4-2. ADDIE Design Rationale

Students analyze needs, goals, learners, situation and content, and apply learning and instructional theories in their design of a course or unit of instruction.

IT 5110 Instructional Development & Production

IT 5120 Instructional Strategies

IT 6740 Learning Processes

Within first year

4-3. ADDIE Development

Using authoring tools for print, multimedia, and integrated resources, students develop instructional units and modules that adhere to message-design and accessibility principles.

IT 5600 Multimedia Authoring

IT 5610 Principles for Designing Multimedia

IT 5130 Instructional Message Design

Within first year

4-4. ADDIE Implementation and Formative Evaluation

Limited scale implementation, formative evaluation, and larger-scale implementation plan

IT 5130 Instructional Message Design (or IT 6515 Leadership for Tech Integration)

IT 5610 Principles for Designing Multimedia

Introduce early, complete midway through program

4-5. ADDIE Student Assessment/Summative Evaluation

Learner assessment system

Summative evaluation

IT 5830 Workshop: Assessment & Technology

IT 6720 Research

Complete second year in program

5. Action Inquiry. Students complete an inquiry project to improve professional practice.

IT 6720 Research

Second year in program

6. Management Report. Students manage a project, facilities, resources, learning group, or personnel.

IT 5610 Principles for Designing Multimedia

IT 5160 Management (or IT 6999 Leadership & Practice)

IT 6930 Internship

Complete late in program

7. Leadership Report. Students lead and participate in development of a change strategy, and implementation of a change process.

IT 5160 Management (or IT 6999 Leadership & Practice)

IT 6720 Research

IT 6930 Internship

Late in program