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**Standard 8** ** Teachers know how to test for student progress. **  The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the pupil.


 * Evidence 1: ** [|Plagiarism Pre-Test], [|Tutorial] , and [|Quizzes]
 * Rationale 1: ** Because students have so much information readily available, it is very important that they know the correct way to use it and this Tutorial with tests and quizzes is a great. The website allows students to take a pre-test and then work through a tutorial to explain all the rules for quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing other peoples work. Because students do not allows feel it is wrong to use other peoples work without crediting the author, many students do not feel this topic is very relevant to them. By using this libraries tutorial students seem to have a little more interested in this very important topic.

Having a more interactive assessment process the students seem to learn the information much better. When presented with just the PowerPoint that I have students did not seem to retain the information quite as well as they have been since I started using this site. This has made the lesson much more students centered, students are responsible for correctly finishing each part of the tutorial before they move forward. As previously designed, they would finish the assignment and wait one or two days for feedback, now feedback is instant.

This assessment has increased the increased the number of students who meet the learning outcomes of this part of the course. I have used the assessment the last two quarters that I have taught the plagiarism unit and the final project that is done at the end of the unit have improved greatly.
 * KSD **
 * 8.K.2 The teacher knows how to select, construct, and use assessment strategies and instruments appropriate to the learning outcomes being evaluated and to other diagnostic purposes. **


 * 8.S.3 The teacher uses assessment strategies to involve learners in self-assessment activities, to help them become aware of their strengths and needs, and to help them to set personal goals for learning. **

After taking the pre-test, student and instructor get an email of the results and we know where improvements occur. The tutorials give the students an explanation on why the example is correct or plagiarized and this gives students a way to assess their learning as the unit progresses.


 * 8.D.2 The teacher is committed to using assessment to identify student strengths and promote student growth rather than to deny students access to learning opportunities. **

In the past some students got very discouraged because they just did not understand how to paraphrases and did not want to ask questions in class. This tutorial has given students a great way to develop the skills to correctly quote, paraphrase and summarize information.