Student Assessment

Overall department themes:

-Allow critical thinking through written or oral form

-Develop the research and application of primary sources with the use of MLA

-Promote reading, writing, projects, and analysis skills, especially with homework.

-Assess interpretive essay writing.

-Objective Tests with assess critical thinking through the make up of the question.

Overall department themes with alternative assessment for less textual learning students

Students with low standardized tests;

(students file, Iowa Basics, Holy Name Placement, PLAN etc.) and are not achieving through the traditional assessment techniques, individual programs will be engineered.

Students who learn in a different style;

(see Gardner's Seven Different Intelligences)

Students will be given alternative assessment and instruction.

American History

-Multiple Choice -True and False

-Fill in the Blanks -Short Essays

-Projects include creating a website, creating a video, poster, debates and teaching a lesson.

-Homework research, reading and writing essays

AP American History

-Multiple Choice -Interpretive Essays with Historical Research

-DBQ (Date Based Questions) -AP Test Questions with critical thinking

-Pre-Tests of past AP Tests.

-Homework projects, research, reading and writing essays

AP European History

-Multiple Choice -Interpretive Essays with Historical Research

-DBQ (Date Based Questions) -AP Test Questions with critical thinking

-Pre-Tests of past AP Tests.

-Homework research, reading and writing essays

AP Political Science

-Multiple Choice -Interpretive Essays with Historical Research

-DBQ (Date Based Questions) -AP Test Questions with critical thinking

-Pre-Tests of past AP Tests. “Current events

-Homework research, reading and writing essays

-True and False -Fill in the blanks

-Note taking and participation

-Projects include creating a website, creating a video, poster, debates and teaching a lesson.

Civilizations and Citizenship

-Thesis development -Multiple Choice

-Map Study -Graphs and Data Charts

-True and False - Short essay questions

-reinforcement of the seven social strands through essays

-Projects include creating a website, creating a video, poster, debates and teaching a lesson.

-Homework projects, research, reading and writing essays

Modern Issues

-Multiple Choice -True and False

-Fill in the blanks -Short Essays

-Quizzes -Current Events

-Note taking and participation

-Projects include creating a website, creating a video, poster, debates and teaching a lesson.

-Homework projects, research, reading and writing essays

Political Science

-Multiple Choice -True and False

-Fill in the blanks -Short Essays

-Quizzes -Current Events

-Note taking and participation

-Projects include creating a website, creating a video, poster, debates and teaching a lesson.

-Homework projects, research, reading and writing essays

Psychology

Multiple Choice -True and False

-Fill in the blanks -Short Essays

-Quizzes -Debates

-Conceptual learning through short essays and projects

-Projects include creating a website, creating a video, poster, debates and teaching a lesson.

-Homework projects, research, reading and writing essays

World History

-Multiple Choice -True and False

-Fill in the blanks -Short Essays

-Quizzes -Current Events

-Note taking and participation -Essays

-Every Friday you are responsible to bring in a newspaper/magazine article on a current

World Event

-Homework projects, research, reading and writing essays

-Extra Credit will be bases on an individual basis