Evaluation definition: "Readers judge, justify, and/or defend understandings to determine importance based on stated criteria." (Reading.ecb.org, 2014) Evaluation is on the upper end of Bloom's Taxonomy because it is in depth critical thinking skills. Students reflect and make opinions based upon reading something.
Evaluation research: "Evaluation research can be defined as a type of study that uses standard social research methods for evaluative purposes, as a specific research methodology, and as an assessment process that employs special techniques unique to the evaluation of social programs. Research supports evaluating because it's the impact of social interventions such as new teaching methods, innovations, and host of others. It has a real-world effect." (Powell, 2014)
How you may use it: A teacher may use this strategy by having students do a book talk. Have students read a few books, hand out a book talk card, and explain. A book talk card is where students evaluate the books they read. The fill out their name, genre, author, the date, and their response to the book. After, students can discuss their book talk cards with one another in partners. Another way a teacher can use this strategy is to have students read a book. Have them evaluate the book by answering these questions on a poster. "Write or sketch about a part of the text that was most interesting to you" "Write or sketch about a part of the text that was most confusing to you" "Write or sketch a favorite word, illustration, quote, or connection you made with the text." The teacher will be scaffolding the students while they respond to these questions on the poster. After, have students present their poster in front of the class. If some students don't want to have them present their poster in front of a classroom friend they feel comfortable to do.
How it will benefit student learning: This strategy benefits student learning because students take time to reflect on their learning. It would do no good for students to learn new concepts, but not reflect on the process of they did or have students read a book, but not facilitate discussions after their response to the book. It's important to evaluate because it's important for students to express how they feel about topics. You truly get to know your students and how they feel when involved with class assignments. After the learning has taken place, students should evaluate what they read or did as an activity. It will bring up discussion topics and students will learn even more from listening to one another's thoughts.
Writing component of the strategy: W.6.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. Writing is tied into this strategy because students will be writing their responses/opinions about texts. They will be writing them down and can also orally speak their evaluation.
2 videos with short summary: The first video is a lady explaining how to evaluate with reading comprehension. She does a small skit that would be engaging for students to watch. It's great for instruction and assessment because a teacher can ask students questions about the video or how they responded to the skit where a message was being sent.
The second video is a guy giving tips about propositions, reasoning, and evaluation. It's a slide that shows examples how to find reason, proposition, and evaluate them. This video would be engaging for older middle school students or early high school because the video contains a lot of information.