SLO Artifacts and Evidence

Name of
Artifact

Link to artifact

Evidence of work toward SLO goal.

Top 10 Terms
Document

Top Ten
Terms

This is a shared document that my SLO group created at the start of our inquiry last Fall. This
was the product of our idea to examine student awareness, understanding and mastery of
academic vocabulary terms. This initial document resulted in a collaborative final five terms we
settled on..

Lesson Plan
on Inferences

Inference
Lesson Plan

Making
Inferences
PPT

Making
Inferences

This is a PowerPoint that I presented to my class during Reading Workshop. It focuses on

making inferences, reading between the lines. We discussed making educated guesses from
evidence combined with prior knowledge.

Inference
PowToon

Inference
Video

This is a short video that I showed to my students that describes and defines demonstrates the
concepts of inferences and how we make inferences every day. The video is a great introduction
and summary of inferencing and how the skill that we all use can be used when we read as
well.

Frayer Model

Frayer Model

This is a document called a Frayer Model. There are a number of variations to this type of
document. I created this document to use specifically for this vocabulary group and instruction.
This is one example of what might students created in their quest for understanding and mastery
of academic terms.

Student
Example - Pre
Test
Student
Example - Post
Test

Pre Test
Adkins
Post Test
Adkins

These documents are examples of student work on both the Academic Terms PreTest and Post
Test. All of my students performed better on the Post Test and were encouraged to express their
ideas in more complete sentences and with a focus on grammar rules and word usage.
Evidence from one student.

This is a multi-day lesson plan or unit designed to introduce, teach and practice the skill of
making inferences.

Student Rubric
Pre Test
Student Rubric
Post Test

Pre Test
Scoring
Rubric
Post Test
Scoring
Rubric

These are examples of individual scoring rubrics that were used to score the Pre and Post Tests
that were taken by individual students as part of this project. Individual result for this student
involved overall increase in literacy.

Pre Test
Scoring Rubric
Post Test
Scoring Rubric

Pre Test
Rubric Group
Post Test
Rubric Group

These documents communicate the data collected from the Academic Terms Pre Test and the
Academic Terms Post Test that my student group took both before and after vocabulary
instruction on the five academic terms identified. Overall improvement in literacy based on the
group rubric increased by .445 points on the rubric. Not what was hoped for in the target of .500
increase, but nothing to sneeze at. I am pleased with the overall improvement of the group.