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Assessment Practices
Tynesha Pringle
Concordia College
Abstract
Assessments can be used for various different reasons, but one of the most important reasons that assessments should be given is to help guide instruction for students. With the proper assessments in place educators are allowed to create the appropriate lessons and programs that can help a child grow, even those with special needs and disabilities. The smallest things can be used as an assessment whether it is formal or summative assessment. Assessments have changed drastically over the last few years and have taken on the more active role of guiding instruction. Within this paper the writer has taken a hard look about …show more content…
In the form of a case study it focused on Jonas who was transitioning from an Early Childhood Intervention to a public school. Dating back it was believed that standardized assessments, norm-reference tests were important and useful however it has been discovered over the last few years that authentic assessments are much more knowledgeable in providing data. It allows the child between the ages of three and six years old to interact in their own environments such as a classroom, home or playground (area that they are familiar with) to show their abilities. Information derived from an authentic assessment can be used to inform planning, instruction, lesson plans, and curriculums. There are various different ways in which data collection can take place such as Running Records or ABC analysis. Authentic assessment is the generalized name for assessments such as Play-Based Assessment, Naturalistic Assessment, or Performance Based Assessment. The strengths in this research is the mention in which this practice is actually being used. The authors did not just discuss assessments, but it provided an actual setting in which it is being used in a real-life …show more content…
The idea of providing various different methods is appropriate however it would have worked in a manner in which it could describe which team member used that specific method. The article did breakdown that each member of the team can focus on different things when conducting a Play-Based Assessment (i.e. the speech coordinator can focus on pathology, etc.) but there was no clarification as to which member used which method. The conclusions in this particular article were valid and generalizable. It can be applied to an early childhood setting for a child who is transitioning. The suggestions that came out of this article aided the writer and realizing that assessments are used to help build instruction. It is particularly important to look at the data for students who are making a transition from one setting to the next. As the article concluded, it made it clear that with the new ideas of assessments, they are becoming more standardized across states. Forcing states to take a look at whether or not students performed in the manner that allowed them to make benchmarks and standards set in
Assessment Practices 6
Assessment Practices
Tynesha Pringle
Concordia College
Abstract
Assessments can be used for various different reasons, but one of the most important reasons that assessments should be given is to help guide instruction for students. With the proper assessments in place educators are allowed to create the appropriate lessons and programs that can help a child grow, even those with special needs and disabilities. The smallest things can be used as an assessment whether it is formal or summative assessment. Assessments have changed drastically over the last few years and have taken on the more active role of guiding instruction. Within this paper the writer has taken a hard look about …show more content…
In the form of a case study it focused on Jonas who was transitioning from an Early Childhood Intervention to a public school. Dating back it was believed that standardized assessments, norm-reference tests were important and useful however it has been discovered over the last few years that authentic assessments are much more knowledgeable in providing data. It allows the child between the ages of three and six years old to interact in their own environments such as a classroom, home or playground (area that they are familiar with) to show their abilities. Information derived from an authentic assessment can be used to inform planning, instruction, lesson plans, and curriculums. There are various different ways in which data collection can take place such as Running Records or ABC analysis. Authentic assessment is the generalized name for assessments such as Play-Based Assessment, Naturalistic Assessment, or Performance Based Assessment. The strengths in this research is the mention in which this practice is actually being used. The authors did not just discuss assessments, but it provided an actual setting in which it is being used in a real-life …show more content…
The idea of providing various different methods is appropriate however it would have worked in a manner in which it could describe which team member used that specific method. The article did breakdown that each member of the team can focus on different things when conducting a Play-Based Assessment (i.e. the speech coordinator can focus on pathology, etc.) but there was no clarification as to which member used which method. The conclusions in this particular article were valid and generalizable. It can be applied to an early childhood setting for a child who is transitioning. The suggestions that came out of this article aided the writer and realizing that assessments are used to help build instruction. It is particularly important to look at the data for students who are making a transition from one setting to the next. As the article concluded, it made it clear that with the new ideas of assessments, they are becoming more standardized across states. Forcing states to take a look at whether or not students performed in the manner that allowed them to make benchmarks and standards set in