Focus Student One Reflection

a. Overall, both students had increased achievement toward their learning goals between the first and second assessment. Focus Student One went from an 8 score to a 10, and Focus Student Two went from a 0 to a 7. Focus Student One was able to grasp the concept of this assignment better and conversations with her affirmed this. Focus Student Two had not completed the first assessment, but was able to stay focused and driven to complete the second assessment. Both students were able to pick an argument and defend it with ease. Focus Student One wrote, "I think that is Success: because is good accomplishment that was help to many people years ago or before such as gave people to many jobs, money, help to childrens and womens also all means because helping in the agriculture in creater more farm techniques for work on the jobs and price was really good for each families also the system economic grow and grow." Though the English may be somewhat broken, she is able to clearly identify her side and give me and give me an idea how she plans to defend it later in her writing (which she does through strong evidence). It was definitely a change from her first assessment, where her confidence lacked in her writing. Focus Student Two wrote "I think that the new
One aspect of my assessment plan that I found particularly successful was the prompt. The students had been going over the New Deal for several days and had heard a lot about its successes, and then they were given a series of particularly troubling aspects of FDR’s policies. Data supports that the New Deal did amazing things for the American economy during the Great Depression, but at the same time it wasn’t necessarily as effective as it could have been and it wasn’t very inclusive of minorities. Having to pass judgment on a program that was so important to America’s recovery from the Great Depression is no easy task, but the students found that challenge engaging and the performed very well on their