Seminary Learning Assessments

1 Seminary Learning AssessmentsPublished byThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsSalt Lake City, UtahComments and corrections are appreciated. Please send them to:Seminaries and Institutes of Religion Curriculum Services50 East North Temple StreetSalt Lake City, UT 84150-0008 USAE mail: list your complete name, address, ward or branch, and stake or district. Be sure to give the title of the manual when you offer your may print this material for their own personal, noncommercial use (including such use in connection with their calling or appointment in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). Please request permission for any other use at 2016, 2018 by Intellectual Reserve, rights in the United States of AmericaVersion 3, 2/18 English approval: 2/18PD60002566 ContentsIntroduction .. vLearning Assessments Overview .. viiMaking Accommodations for Students with Disabilities.

2 IxStudy Guides .. 1 doctrine and covenants 1 75 and Joseph Smith History .. 3 doctrine and covenants 76 Official Declaration 2 .. 5 Old Testament: Genesis Ruth .. 7 Old Testament: 1 Samuel Malachi .. 9 New Testament: Matthew John .. 11 New Testament: Acts Revelation .. 13 Book of Mormon: 1 Nephi 1 Alma 16 .. 15 Book of Mormon: Alma 17 Moroni 10 .. 17 IntroductionLearning AssessmentsOverviewLearning Assessments help students understand, explain, apply, and testify ofimportant doctrines and principles. The successful completion of the learningassessments for the course is required for teachers or administrators, you can prepare to help students successfullycomplete the Learning Assessments by viewing the video Best Practices forLearning Assessments (8:30). When the video prompts you, review and completethe sections in the document Best Practices for Learning Assessments .

3 You can also help students successfully complete the Learning Assessments byconsistently teaching, emphasizing, and reviewing the major doctrines andprinciples throughout the course. Study guides are provided to help teachers andstudents identify some of the course s major doctrines and Learning assessment software will help you administer a Learning assessmentand collect results quickly. You have two options for administering an assessment. option allows students to use a computer or mobile device tocomplete the Learning assessment. The assessment is automatically scored, andstudents receive a report that shows their score and which questionsthey missed. option allows students to use paper and a pencil to complete thelearning assessment. Each bubble sheet has a unique code for each student. Youwill scan the bubble sheets, and they will be automatically the Learning assessment is scored, you can view a class report of the mostmissed questions.

4 The software will also automatically update students recordsin you need help using the software, click on the links in the table to reviewhandouts and demonstrations on how to use the Learning AssessmentsPDFhandoutOnlinedemonstration Reviewing Learning AssessmentsPDFhandoutOnlinedemonstration Taking Learning Assessments OnlinePDFhandoutOnlinedemonstrationAdmin istering a Learning Assessment from a PreviousCoursePDFhandoutOnlinedemonstrat ionUsing the ScanNGrade Mobile Scanning AppPDFhandoutOnlinedemonstrationFrequent ly Asked QuestionsPDF handoutviiSoftware training is available in the following languages: Chinese, English, French,German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Assessments OVERVIEW viiiMaking Accommodationsfor Students withDisabilitiesThe purpose of assessment accommodations is to enable students with specificneeds, disabilities, or health-related conditions to participate in the assessment onan equal basis with other students.

5 Teachers should make appropriateaccommodations to meet the specific needs, disabilities, and health-relatedconditions of their students. The following are guidelines to consider as you makeaccommodations for your students:1. Identify students who may have specific needs or disabilities. Have a privateconversation with each student to identify his or her specific need(s). Listenattentively, and be positive. You may consider having conversations with thesestudents parents or Church leaders to help you better understand their specificneed(s).2. Based on your conversations, make a plan that appropriately accommodates thestudent s specific need(s).3. Implement the accommodations. Individual accommodations should remainconfidential. It is impossible to list all of the possible accommodations;however, the following are several examples of possible accommodations:Presentation:Provide the student with an audio version of the assessment,present the instructions and assessment orally, or provide the student with alarge-print version of the assessment (see the Learning Assessments website forthe currently available formats of the assessment).

6 Setting:Provide the student with preferential seating in the classroom, providea space with minimal distractions, or administer the assessment in asmall-group setting or in another scheduling:Administer the assessment in several sessions or over severaldays, allow the various parts of the assessment to be taken in a different order,administer the assessment at a specific time of day, or allow extended time tocomplete the :Allow the student to make verbal responses of his or her answerchoices, allow for answers to be dictated to a scribe or recorder, or permitanswers to be marked in the assessment booklet rather than on theanswer Avoid making accommodations that change or reduce the Learning expectationsof the Have Christlike love for each student, and follow the promptings of the Spirit asyou make accommodations to meet students Go to the following Church website to find more general information onhelping individuals with disabilities: ACCOMMODATIONS FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIESxStudy GuidesDoctrine and Covenants1 75 and JosephSmith HistoryDoctrinal mastery questions:Understand the doctrine taught in thedoctrinal mastery passages.

7 Joseph Smith History 1:15 20 doctrine and covenants 1:30 doctrine and covenants 1:37 38 doctrine and covenants 6:36 doctrine and covenants 8:2 3 doctrine and covenants 13:1 doctrine and covenants 18:10 11 doctrine and covenants 18:15 16 doctrine and covenants 19:16 19 doctrine and covenants 21:4 6 doctrine and covenants 29:10 11 doctrine and covenants 42:11 doctrine and covenants 49:15 17 doctrine and covenants 58:42 43 doctrine and covenants 64:9 11 Context questions:Understand some of the major events or accounts thatsurround and give background to a particular passage. Oliver Cowdery s witness that the work of Joseph Smith was of God (see D&C6:22 23) The loss of the 116 manuscript pages and the principles Joseph Smith learned(see D 10) Truths learned from the First Vision (see Joseph Smith History 1:11 20) The general timeline of key events: the First Vision, Joseph receiving the goldenplates, the restoration of the priesthood, the organization of the Church, andthe move to Kirtland, Ohio The messengers who restored the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthoods (seeD Joseph Smith History 1:72)3 The center place of Zion and the meanings associated with the wordZion(seeD True to the Faith: A Gospel Reference[2004], 189 90)Doctrine and principles:Understand major doctrine and principles taught in theDoctrine and Covenants.

8 Principles that govern revelation: receiving revelation (see D&C 9:7 9),recognizing revelation (see D&C 8:1 5), discerning true revelation from falseideas (see D&C 50:10 36), and understanding that the prophet receivesrevelation to guide the Church and that those with callings receive revelationfor their responsibilities (see D&C 28:1 7) Reasons why The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only trueand living church (see D 18:1 5; 27:5 14; 33:1 6) What the doctrine and covenants teaches about the Atonement of Jesus Christ(see D&C 29:30 45), baptism (see D&C 20:72 74; 22:1 4), the sacrament (seeD&C 20:77, 79; 27:1 2), gifts of the Spirit (see D&C 46:8 26), marriage (seeD&C 49:15 17), preparation for the Second Coming (see D&C 45:32, 39, 57),scripture (see D&C 68:2 4), the law of consecration (see D&C 42:30 42), andthe Book of Mormon (see D&C 20:8 12) The role of the Prophet Joseph Smith in the final dispensation (see D&C27:5 14; 65:2) The role of the prophet in receiving revelation for the Church (see D&C 21:1,4 6; 28:2, 6 7; 43:1 7)Key terms:Understand the meaning of key terms.

9 Eternal life (see D 20:17 28; 29:22 29; 66:4 13) Immortality (seeTrue to the Faith,52) New and everlasting covenant (see D&C 66:2) The Great Apostasy and individual apostasy (seeTrue to the Faith,13 14) Spiritual death (see D&C 29:40 41) doctrine and covenants 1 75 AND JOSEPH SMITH HISTORY4 Doctrine and Covenants76 Official Declaration 2 Doctrinal mastery questions:Understand the doctrine taught in thedoctrinal mastery passages. doctrine and covenants 76:22 24 doctrine and covenants 82:10 doctrine and covenants 84:20 22 doctrine and covenants 88:118 doctrine and covenants 89:18 21 doctrine and covenants 107:8 doctrine and covenants 121:36, 41 42 doctrine and covenants 130:22 23 doctrine and covenants 131:1 4 doctrine and covenants 135:3 Context questions:Understand some of the major events or accounts thatsurround and give background to a particular passage.

10 The messengers who restored certain priesthood keys to the Prophet JosephSmith and Oliver Cowdery in the Kirtland Temple (see D&C 110:11 16) Principles the Prophet Joseph Smith learned about trials while in Liberty Jail(see D&C 122:7) The major gathering places of the early Saints (see D&C 124, section heading;D&C 136, section heading, 1 18) The establishment of the Relief Society (seeDaughters in My Kingdom: TheHistory and Work of Relief Society[2011], 11 25) The coming forth of the Pearl of Great Price (see the introduction to the Pearl ofGreat Price)Doctrine and principles:Understand major doctrine and principles taught in theDoctrine and Covenants. The oath and covenant of the priesthood (see D&C 84:33 44), resurrection andkingdoms of glory (see D&C 88:14 24), the Word of Wisdom (see D&C 89),watchmen on the tower (see D&C 101:43 62), Church disciplinary councils (seeD True to the Faith: A Gospel Reference[2004], 37 38), when the practiceof plural marriage is justified (see D&C 132:45, 48), and tithing (see D&C 119) Temple work (see D 110), performing ordinances for our ancestors (seeD&C 128:15), and preaching the gospel in the spirit world (see D&C 138:29 32)5 Receiving a kingdom of glory and receiving exaltation in the celestial kingdom(see D&C 76:30 70; 131:1 4.)