Final Draft of Summative Assessment Blueprint

This is the final blueprint of my summative assessment blueprint. Thank you to everyone for their kind words and suggestions on the first draft! The changes you will see in this draft are the tweaked relative point values to reflect the amount of time and effort involved in responding to each item as well as the relative value of the learning target that each items is assessing. I have color-coded this draft and included a key in an attempt to better illustrate my thought process.

I would also like to explain my purpose in response to Professor Browne's questions/suggestions. I have less than a single hour of actual classroom experience, so my purpose here is to master the basics and underlying concepts. I would inject creativity into the actual assessment, enough to engage students without distracting them, with the actual questions. For example, the genetics traits would be "unique" and the situations for the Punnett squares and pedigree charts would be interesting as well. Within the criteria for the assignment. I wanted the process and product to be as close to what I will actually be doing one day in my classroom as possible.

I also feel that the point distribution is excellent. First, I weighed each learning target relative to the others. Within each learning target, I made sure that the point distribution among items was also balanced. I then made sure that the point distribution was consistent throughout the assessment and that values are consistent with time and effort involved in responding to each assessment item. To sum it up, I put a lot of thought and time into the point distribution, and the relatively flat distribution is deliberate and reflects the relatively close importance of each learning target within the assessment.