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Chapter 1

Backward design is a way for teachers to consider academic objectives first, and then create a lesson plan to meet those goals. Backward design usually results in greater student success because the students' learning goals are explicitly stated from the beginning. Students can then better understand how each element of the lesson ties into the learning goals. In summary, backward planning involves these steps:
 * 1. Why is understanding by design referred to as "Backward Design"?**
 * 1) Deciding on the objective.
 * 2) Creating a rubric or grading standard.
 * 3) Planning the instruction.
 * 4) Teaching the lesson.

Evaluation is assigning a grade for a specific assignment or test. Evaluation offers the teacher a chance to see if the student understands specific material. Assessment is observing the student over a long period of time and deciding if the student has learned the material. Assessment gives the teacher a chance to see if the student understands the overall picture.
 * 2. What is the difference between evaluation and assessment?**

The type of assessment that was used most in my classrooms was the quiz and test/exam method. We did use other forms of assessments such as presentations and written essays, but the quizzes and tests were given more often. The quiz and test method is a great system because the quizzes will show where a student needs help the most without hurting their grades too much, and once they strengthen their weaknesses they will be ready for the tests, which will effect their grades much more than the quizzes.
 * 3. What type of assessment is most often used in your classroom or in a classroom when you were a student? How can its use be justified?**

Assessment is a successful tool to be used when evaluating a student, but it can also be unsuccessful when it is not being done before, during, and after a lesson. If assessment takes place only after a lesson has been completed, it is likely that you are to have missed the particular strengths and weaknesses of the student.
 * 4. What can assessment say and cannot say about learning?**

The most important part to writing a good rubric is making the rubric very clear, and written in a language which the students can understand. Make sure the students understand what they are required to do, and provide benchmarks for the different grading levels. Also, be sure to explain the scale on which they are going to be evaluated.
 * 5. What is the key to constructing rubrics?**

Chapter 2

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 * **Learning Standard** || **Web Resources** ||
 * Geometry - Volume || []

answers. ||
 * **Educational Website Categories** || **Websites** || **Brief Description** ||
 * Lesson Plans || Pat- [] || Site offers a wide variety of different math lesson plans. ||
 * Student to Expert || Pat- [] || A Q&A math website run by Drexel University ||
 * Real-Time and Recorded Data || Pat- [] || Many search options, and gives child a chance to input numbers to find
 * Archival and Primary Source || Pat- [|http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/] || Provides many search options to discover the history of math. ||
 * Skills/Practice || Pat- [] || Give sample and actual interactive quizzes for students to complete. ||
 * Exploration and Discovery || Pat- [] || Just a general fun math site for children to explore and learn with. ||


 * **Learning Standard** || **Web Resources** ||
 * English-Research || @http://www.aresearchguide.com/1steps.html ||
 * || @http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/658/01/ ||
 * || @http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/kingch/how_to_write_a_research_paper.htm ||

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 * **Educational Website Categories** || **Websites** || **Brief Description** ||
 * Lesson Plans || Katelyn-@http://awaitingtenure.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/quick-and-dirty-research-based-lesson-plans/ || Site offers a wide variety of different research based lesson plans ||
 * Student to Expert || Katelyn- @http://adulted.about.com/od/howtos/tp/writearesearchpaper.htm || forum where people can post FAQ's and get some answers from both peers and experts. ||
 * Real-Time and Recorded Data || Katelyn-@http://books.google.com/ || like an EBSCOhost for books FREE from google. ||
 * Archival and Primary Source || Katelyn-@http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ || Everything students needs to correctly style their research paper in APA. ||
 * Skills/Practice || Katelyn-@http://www.educationatlas.com/writing-a-research-paper.html || effective study skills for researching topics. ||
 * Exploration and Discovery || Katelyn- @http://www.go2web20.net/site/?a=BookLamp || Fun Site for children to find both fiction and non-fiction books. ||
 * **Educational Website Categories** || **Websites** || **Brief Description** ||
 * Lesson Plans || Justin- http://www.readwritethink.org/ || This website includes a number of peer-reviewed lesson plans specifically for English teachers. ||
 * Student to Expert || Justin- http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ || As a part of the Library of Congress, this website allows anyone to chat in real time or submit email questions to librarians. ||
 * Real-Time and Recorded Data || Justin- http://scholar.google.com/ || The scholarly brother of the popular Google search engine, this website organizes scholarly literature in a familiar way. ||
 * Archival and Primary Source || Justin- http://www.archives.gov/ || The National Archives website provides digital historical exhibits and access to digital versions of historical documents and photographs. ||
 * Skills/Practice || Justin- http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la-grammar.html || This website contains links to grammar and proofreading games. ||
 * Exploration and Discovery || Justin- http://www.brainpop.com/ || Useful for both teachers and students, provides educational and entertaining mini-lessons and activities across the curriculum. ||