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I would assign the Civil War Battle Research Project to a DoK level 1. As Francis describes in his blog post, Depth of Knowledge level 1 is knowledge acquisition; can students recall and reproduce data, definitions, details, facts, information, and procedures. This assignment is primarily to research and regurgitate in an organized way. Although the assignment asks students to take on the "perspective of a historian" (which made me initially think of DoK level 2) and research one battle and another topic related to the civil war, it does not require knowledge application (answer questions, address problems, or analyze texts and topics, as Francis describes in his post)...it doesn't ask the students any questions that have answers that are not researchable.

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My initial thoughts are that this assignment starts out with DOK level 1 as students are being asked to simply find and regurgitate facts, the who, what, where and when of the battle or topic and present it to the class. The one area where it may hit DOK Level 2 was in discussing the impact of the battle/person/topic depending on how in-depth students may get. Even filling in the graphic organizer as students are watching and listening to the presentations of others seems like DOK 1 as they are simply being asked to recall information. One of the things mentioned in the blog post about Webb’s depth of knowledge said that DOK 2 gets students to think about how the information can be used. I don’t see that in this assessment, but instead believe students are looking up and providing facts about the battles/person/topic.

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Initially I thought that the Civil War Project should be somewhere between a DOK (Depth of Knowledge) of a 1 or 2. When looking more closely at the criteria, there are some parts of the project that are a DOK 1 and ask students to recall facts. I rated it as a DOK 2 though because while they need to recall these facts, they have to think like a historian. This means that thy need to synthesize the information and decide on the best way to present what they have learned. While I am not entirely sure if this would be a DOK 1 or 2, I think the question on the project could be reframed to have students think at a deeper level. I also wonder how this assessment could be changed to a DOK of 3 or 4.

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For the Civil War research assignment, I would give it a level 1 for the Depth of Knowledge. Students are asked to research and produce facts and basic information about the battles and another topic regarding the Civil War. The reason that it does not reach past level 1 is that level 2 requires students to apply the knowledge, which this assignment does not ask the student to address problems or analyze text outside of finding facts. Students are to report who won and how they won. If it were to reach level 2, the question that encourages further thinking would be “why”; therefore, I think a level 1 would be an appropriate rating for this particular assignment.

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Lindsay Drangeid - Civil War Assessment analysis

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Lindsay Drangeid - Civil War Assessment analysis

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For the main part of the paper, I would assign a level of rigor of DoK1, though maybe the specific component of stating the impact of battle, could possibly be DoK2. This main section is about finding information without any further analysis.
For the last part of the assignment, where students choose one from a list of topics to research, this could be anywhere from DoK1 to DoK3. There aren't any specifics about what this research should look like, so the depth of knowledge demonstrated would be almost exclusively dependent about the individual student. I would suspect that most wouldn't exceed DoK1, but there could be that kid that really gets into it out of intrinsic interest.

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After reviewing the civil war battle research project, I came to the conclusion that this is a DOK-1 level assignment.

The students are reproducing data, definitions, details, facts, and information so it’s knowledge acquisition. They’re not required to apply this knowledge to address a problem or analyze, but instead researching, summarizing, and putting their research into a presentation for the class. At first I did debate for a sec that it may not be DOK-1, but DOK-2 does include “cognitive skills to answer questions,” but that to me means using reasoning and critical thinking to answer open ended questions, so I decided not because this project is just factual not knowledge application. DOK-1 is content-specific, so the students are just focusing on one of the topics listed and not using that information to focus on the “why” or “how” it can be transferred or used to explain reasons.

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After reviewing the assessment I went back and forth about where to place this. I believe the assessment really could fit in DOK 1 and 2 just for different reasons. I decided on DOK 2 because this assessment required more from students than just spitting out facts. It required students to organize the information into slides, summarize the battle of their choosing, and choosing an additional topic to research. Wars and battles can be complex and this assessment required students to identify various aspects of their battle along with giving summaries of the war itself and who won the war. It required students to apply the knowledge they found and see how it related to various aspects of the war. I also think having students make the powerpoint AND do a presentation to the class that requires not just reading word for word off slides will require them to have deeper knowledge of the battle they researched. I think this assessment has really good foundation and could be easily modified to even get moved up to a DOK 3.

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I was really thinking hard about where to place this assignment. I am not very familiar with these DOK levels and just learning about them so I was not sure if you go by overall majority of the assignment or is one small piece can move it to a different DOK level.
I would say the assignment as mostly DOK-1. I feel as though the student is going to go to the resources and find the information that is needed and present it in their google slide. They are not analyzing anything or explaining anything much further from the who, what, when, where and why.
I moved down to DOK-2 because the students will have to do a brief summary of the war and write about the impacts of the war. They will also have to organize some information into a google slide as well. Overall my opinion on this assignment is that the students will mostly have to recall information. Which means I could be easily persuaded to move it to DOK 1 ;)

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After reviewing this example project I would place it's level of rigor at DOK1. The main focus of the project is to produce information such as the dates of major battles and who won them. The project is clearly focused on the acquisition of knowledge asking students to go out and find this information. It is not asking students to do anything with the information they find. There is no section where students provide their own thoughts on the battles, or use the concepts discovered while learning about this major battles to answer problems. Even the summary at the end of the project is a consolidation of information not an examination or application of it.

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As I looked over this assessment, I was trying to decide if I would classify it as DOK 1 or DOK 2. In the end, I decided it fit best in DOK 2. There are some elements of this assessment that only require students to recall facts and knowledge. These elements include the requirements about the date, location, map, officers and other basic information about the battle. The requirements that had students look into the topic more deeply are what led me to classify it as DOK 2. These requirements included giving a summary (requiring students to synthesize the information), explaining how the battle was won, and explaining the impact of the battle on the overall war. This last part might be close to a DOK level 3, but I think to be closer to that level, it could have been reworded to ask students to think about how would the war have changed without this battle.

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When I first looked this assignment over, I though most of the tasks were DOK 1. I think all but one of the tasks were recalling of data, facts, and details. The pictures and maps are not analyzed; they just need to be included. What makes this project DOK 2 is the summary of the battle in 2 paragraphs. They need to include a first hand account. They also have to take all the data, facts, and details and put them into a coherent presentation. They also need to present the information. The tasks themselves are DOK 1, but the project as a whole is DOK 2. It is not DOK 3, in my opinion, because they are not trying to analyze the data, facts, and details; it is a simple summary.

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I believe it is in DOK level 2. The students have to make some decisions and quite a bit of summarizing. Some critical thinking about the aftermath (impact of the battle) could have moved towards level 3, but I do not feel there was enough. I believe the students could have been told to create a theory as to why the battle happened (i.e. was it for strategic or tactical superiority; where did the local population side; was it necessary (this is a question generals should ask way more than they do). Adding some of these may move the assignment to a more advanced level.

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Civil War Assessment Analysis- Kylie Sand 

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Civil War Assessment Analysis- Kylie Sand 

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Looking over the Civil war assignment, I would assign in the DOK level 2. DOK level 2 states that students use academic concepts and cognitive skills to answer questions, address problems, accomplish tasks, and analyze texts and topics. I ranked it at a level 2 because this project has the students answering questions about their topic on the Civil War. Students will also have to analyze the texts they are reading from research as well as the the topic they selected. The students will also be accomplishing a very large task of putting their presentation together and presenting it to the class.

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I think that this project is between DOK 1 and DOK 2. Some of the tasks fall neatly into DOK 1 while others fall into DOK 2.  DOK 1 focuses on the recall and reproduction of data. Some of the requirements such as dates, locations, and summaries easily fall into the level of DOK 1.  However, some of the other tasks fall into DOK 2.  DOK 2 is where you use academic skills to analyze the text.  I think the tasks of eye witness account, and the impact of the battle forces the students to analyze their resources.  Students cannot just simply write down the facts.  They must analyze their topic to produce the information.  So in all, I think this assessment is more than a 1, but not completely a 2 as half of the assignment involves the recall and reproduction of data.