The collection that I have so far is; students wide screeners which seek to identify students who may be struggling, individual assessments which attempt to track development, such as a spelling inventory, pretests which assess how much student’s know before beginning a unit, formative assessments
If they are successful in this, it is then evident they learned something from the unit and what was taught. For the second assessment, it asks many different types of questions, including true/false, multiple choice, open ended, and word problems. By doing this, students are having to use their knowledge and understanding of the material and apply it to many different types of
Classroom assessment and grading practices have the potential not only to measure and report learning but also to promote it. Indeed, recent research has documented the benefits of regular use of diagnostic and formative assessments as feedback for learning (Black, Harrison, Lee, Marshall, & Wiliam,
After an orientation, students are familiar regarding standardized testing and other prerequisites and course requirements. If students will be tested using a standardized instrument the teacher will have less flexibility in choosing the material proposed to be covered in a course. In order to achieve maximum success on the test, course objectives and lessons will need to closely align with the intended test students will
Assessments are a teacher’s tool that builds a profile on student’s growth and are the “tell-tell” detectors that provide the with teacher information on a student who may need additional services in and beyond the
The knowledge I gleaned from this activity resulted in a more tailored and focused learning experience for my students which met them where they were instead of assuming what they did or didn’t know. My lessons were more appropriate for the learning environment as a result of giving a pre-test and at the end of the unit both the students and I will be able to have tangible proof that our time was not wasted. Learning occurred and this pre-assessment allows us to prove
2:1 Compare the strengths and limitations of assessments of a range of assessment methods with reference to the needs of individual learners. Workplace Observations, question and answer/professional discussions, projects/assignments, portfolios, witness statements. A good assessor will always take into account their learners needs and what particular subject they are studying for prior to confirming with learner type of assessment method to be used. Workplace observations
Smarter Balanced Assessment: Pro or Con? Smarter Balanced Assessment, who is it truly assessing, the teachers or the students? Smarter Balanced testing contributes to the teacher’s performance, but is it beneficial or does it have unintended consequences? Students are ultimately grading the teachers by taking these tests and they are not even aware of it. The disadvantages may outweigh the benefits for this topic, but teachers must look past the disadvantages and do what they were meant to do, teach.
Informally, I will be constantly collecting data throughout each lesson because the lessons are set up so that the students have time to work with their partner to explore and solve problems, giving me time to circulate and make note of misconceptions to address full class as well as provide immediate feedback and support. This real-time, informal assessments are in the form of turn and talks, write, pair, share, and in pulling equity sticks for students to explain their mathematical reasoning and problem-solving skills to the class. I can formatively check for procedural fluency in seeing the extent to which students are able to solve the problems on their paper and make note of students who need additional support on my clipboard. During lesson 1, I will be assessing what students already know about
I incorporate this learned experience daily and learn through each success and discovered area of improvement. Addressing my students needs using a variety of assessment tools has been a beneficial practice to help guide instruction. Students have different learning styles and their strengths and weaknesses are not always apparent using the same methods of assessment. Utilizing formative, standards(goal)-based, anecdotal, observational and benchmarks has driven my instructional programs. The combination of different assessments provides me with a multi-dynamic perspective of my students allowing me to better understand their strengths, weakness and academic needs.
Background info: During my student teaching experience, I had the opportunity to teach a unit that outlined the events that led to the Civil War. Throughout this unit I assessed my students three different times, I gave my students a pre-assessment, formative and summative assessment. As you analyze the spreadsheet you will notice that I only had three objectives for this unit, the reasoning being is with this unit being such a heavy content unit I opted to emphasize three major points throughout this unit. In doing this I was able to make the content more meaningful and understandable for my students. As I introduced my unit to my students this past semester I had my students fill out a self-regulated learning pre-assessment quiz(SRL) sheet
I agree in some extent to what she refers on adding more unnecessary stress to incoming kindergarten students; however, as the textbook also explain, assessments are defined as “the outgoing continuous process of collecting, gathering, and documenting information about children’s development, health, and behavior.” The pro’s of using formal assessments in children are: • It allows parents, educators, and the United States Department of Education to gather data in regards of a child’s development and growth. • Identify where are the strength and weakness in areas such as: cognitive, language, and emotional. • Helps teacher to plan individual instructions for a child or a group of children with the same level of development.
These assessment not only provide teachers with information about a child’s skills and needs, but are also
Report – DVD triggered assessment of Health Status and critique of assessment interaction Submitted To Teacher’s Name Submitted By Submitter’s Name Submission Date Mar 27, 2015 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS All the praise to Almighty the most beneficent and merciful who gave us this opportunity to compile this report. I am very thankful to course instructor Teacher’s Name who remained very cooperative and helpful throughout this work. He just did not make our concepts clear but gave us vivid direction and east path to compile this report. We hope that she will continue to guide us in this way in future.
Authentic assessments should be tied to real-world contexts and require the student to “do” the subject. For example after a Math lesson on telling time to have the students complete a “time” worksheet. Tell each child to write their beginning time and once they
