Project Overview:
Exam Reviewer: classifies items and offers insight into an item's validity as subject matter expert
- Celia Herodek
- Neil Summers
- Alix MacDonald
- Penny Marcotte
- Lee Murray
- Lynda Newton
- Danielle Dore
- Lindsay Bonenfant
- Jennifer Chang
Instructional Designer: creates and populates blueprint, identifies gaps and excesses in blueprint
- Lindsay Bonenfant
Exam Reviewers classified the items from the Science 14 Final Exam. The items were classified according to:
Understandings: (Knowledge, Comprehension and Application, and Higher Mental Activity)
Performance Standard: Standard of Excellence or Acceptable Standard
The Instructional Designer created a new blueprint for Science 14 to reflect the outcomes from the Science 14 Program of Study. The Exam Review team met on June 13 for a working session to classify the items according to outcome. You can see the Exam Reviewers working hard in the shot below. We had good discussion around the blueprint and decided on the amount of multiple choice and numerical response questions. Science 14 will no longer have written response on the final exam.
Blueprint:
The ID will populate the new blueprint based on the outcome classification provided by the exam reviewers. Once the gaps in the blueprint are identified, the ID will report to the Exam Review Team and Item Writers will write items to fit the gaps in the blueprint.
A very big thank you to the Exam Reviewers for giving their time and expertise to the project, and for classifying the items. Thank you very much to the Instructional Designer for creating a new blueprint and for populating it with the information provided by the Exam Reviewers.
The Science 14 Final Exam will be completed by the end of this semester. For more information on this and other projects please visit the Foundational Curriculum Website.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Maureen Stewart.
I would love to see how this process unfolds on an upcoming project. If there is ever an opportunity to just sit-in, so I have a better understanding of how an exam project takes shape, please let me know!
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