Assessment Map by Unit

Programming by Design: Computing, Representation, and Reasoning

This map outlines the core assessments and artifacts for each unit. Each task is designed to capture student reasoning, not just product or performance.

Unit 1: The Story of Data

  • * *Journal Prompts* — interpret computing news and graph visuals
  • * *Diagram Task* — represent a system (human or technical)
  • * *Vocabulary Check* — define abstraction, encoding, protocol
  • * *Discussion Participation* — computing as a human system

Unit 2: Programming by Design (Racket)

  • * *Design Recipe Submission* — with contract, examples, tests
  • * *Code Review Check* — peer feedback on recursive or cond logic
  • * *Visual Pattern Generator* — recursive drawing or modeling task
  • * *Reflection Writing* — what makes a function “well-designed”

Unit 3: Data Science and Representation (Pyret)

  • * *Dataset Exploration* — filtering and transforming with map, filter
  • * *Annotated Visualization* — chart with rationale and critique
  • * *Data Ethics Prompt* — reflect on omission, bias, or category design
  • * *Vocabulary Check* — record, field, filter, visualization

Unit 4: Systems and Control (Python + EarSketch)

  • * *EarSketch Performance* — explain structure + logic of music system
  • * *Simulation Code* — loop and conditional-based model
  • * *Logic Trace* — student explains program line by line
  • * *Debugging Task* — fix and annotate broken accumulator logic

Unit 5: Interface and Communication (HTML + CSS)

  • * *Portfolio Page* — present prior work with narrative and design
  • * *Design Critique* — peer review of structure and clarity
  • * *Self-Assessment* — which design choices served communication?
  • * *Checklist Completion* — accessibility and semantic structure

Unit 6: Code in the Wild (Jupyter + APIs)

  • * *Notebook Submission* — with question, code, output, and narrative
  • * *Peer Presentation* — walk through a peer’s analysis aloud
  • * *Metadata Prompt* — what data did you leave out, and why?
  • * *API Walkthrough* — explain how the data was fetched and used

Unit 7: Networks, Protocols, and Power

  • * *Protocol Map* — diagram how a web request travels through abstraction layers
  • * *Metadata Log* — what is exposed in each transmission?
  • * *Discussion Participation* — ethics of routing, DNS, infrastructure
  • * *Concept Map* — connect networks to power, equity, and design

Unit 8: Capstone Projects

  • * *Final Artifact* — program, site, simulation, or data story
  • * *Documentation Packet* — logic explanation and technical breakdown
  • * *Reflective Essay* — what you built, why, and what it shows
  • * *Peer Review Rubric* — revision notes and response to critique

Each assessment emphasizes clarity, defense of reasoning, and self-awareness in design.