Rick Wormeli’s video on Formative and Summative Assessment was absolutely educational. He speaks about the importance of Formative Assessment, discusses how teachers might actually be spending too much time on their Summative Assessment instead of the Formative Assessment. He also made a valid point in which he says students can learn without Summative Assessment but students learn much more when they formatively assessed. Formative Assessment should be the primary resource teachers use to guide their classes. Many grade school teachers in Florida are worried about how well their students do on Criterion Reference Test.…
In my own classroom, I plan to continue using a range of assessment techniques, to improve my teaching and continually strive to improve student learning…
PISA-D: To improve academic rigour,attainment and progres Month/ Week Action steps; what needs to be done Resources and Responsible person who should take action to complete this step Student focused success criteria Are there any potential challenges that may impeade completion. March Week II Raise attainment and progress in education by Domains teacher on up-to-date pedagogy. Mrs. Tsheten Yangdon Teachers and students are more engaged in lessons Week III Raise attainment and progress by more closely monitoring and core groups members. progress and attain higher grades Week IV Improve progress and attainment across all subjects by ensuring all teachers use formative and summative assessment to plan for learning.…
INTASC Standards: 8, 9 Standard #8 - “The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social and physical development of the learner (Henson, 2009).” As a teacher it is important to use a variety of assessments to evaluate and ensure that students understand and are learning the content presented in the classroom. In addition to giving traditional assessments such as a quiz, exam or paper, alternatives that will be provided include group assessments, self-assessment, portfolios, observations and performance assessments. By applying varied assessment methods a check for understanding of a student’s knowledge will be better assessed since there are limitations with different types of evaluations.…
By using these assessments, I can quickly make adjustments to my instruction. For example, when students leave my class, their exit…
Introduction High-stakes testing has consistently been a hot topic in education for decades. These tests are used to hold students, teachers, and school districts accountable for academic growth. But, what exactly is a high-stakes test? How did it evolve in education? Why does it matter?…
Testing and Assessment Education is becoming more and more prevalent. The focus on teachers being accountable for the material that they teach to their students has increased dramatically. Teachers, each and every year are having more and more pressure on them in regards to their students retention of information. The national standard is that each individual child learns the same information and has learned the same information for that level.…
Albert Einstein, once said “Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts” (Casbergue, 2010, p. 13). When it comes to assessing students in their education knowledge administration, teachers, and educators all have their own way to assess learning. There is not one right way to assess students just like there is no one size to fit all in education. When it comes to assessing student’s educators all have their own way to assess. However, there is no one way to assess, research has found both advantages and disadvantages in standardized assessment and alternative assessment.…
Assessment has been used as a tool for assessing learning in our schools for many years. It is an approach that has been used as a means of reporting students’ progress to parents. It must be noted that only certain things can be professionally assessed in schools. The expectation of many people regarding school assessment is an examination that tests a student’s ability to recall information(P. Barnes, Wright, & Brandom, 2008).…
In education, the term assessment refers to the wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition, or educational needs of students (McMillan, 2014). There are many external factors that can have a negative influence on a child being assessed. According Gonzalez (2012), poverty, discrimination, and lack of equity and social justice in assessment and teaching practices have been demonstrated as the key factors making these negative influences. Diana Vs.…
2. LITERATURE DISCUSSION A good way to understand the importance of assessment is to think about learning outcomes. If students automatically learned what they were taught, we would never need to assess; we could instead just keep records of what we had taught. But every teacher knows, many students do not learn what they are taught.…
Compare and Contrast Activity Evaluation and assessment are necessary components of education. Assessments and evaluations have some similarities and differences, but both serve an important purpose in the educational process. Both assessments and evaluations involve checking for or observing specific criteria in a student’s performance or learning outcome. They also “require the collection of data and other evidence by observing the performance or by looking at the outcome or product” (Baehr). This is because educators use evaluations and assessments to determine how a student is doing or understanding the content or material being taught, even though the information obtained through evaluations and assessments are used in different ways.…
Introduction Pre-assessments, diagnostic assessments, formative assessments, and summative assessments all have their own place in the classroom. They provide teachers with data that informs curriculums, instruction and ultimately additional assessment. The many assessments that teachers use to guide their practices are assessed using a variety of methods. When giving students a performance based assessment, the appropriate grading style is a rubric.…
I used to think that our educational institution evaluated and assessed students too much. But over the past few years, I have noticed that our students need to be evaluated and assessed to allow students and teacher to see where they are at in regards to the tested subject areas of math, language arts, and science. I have gained the insight of the importance of checking students periodically to help them see their progress and learning outcomes. The benchmark assessments let students know where they are and help them know what they need to do to improve or maintain their scores and successes on benchmark…
The objectives of the assessment are threefold. First and from an achievement perspective, is to determine to what degree the student has mastered the material studied. Next and from a placement perspective, is to determine the general placement of the student for future classes and for groupings for future assignments. Last and from a diagnostic perspective, is to determine specifically what the student needs to work on in the future. Type of…