Educational assessment and evaluation

1: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning under the specific standard element of 1.1 Using knowledge of students to engage them in learning; and Standard 5 Assessing Students for Learning under the specific standard element 5.4 Using assessment data to establish learning goals and to plan, differentiate, and modify instruction. List your current developmental level of your chosen CSTP. For Standard 1: Integrating For Standard 5: Applying Where am I now? Currently, I am…

Early Literacy Assessments Early literacy assessments are a critical part of a student’s success in English Language Arts and other subject areas in school. By partaking in a series of assessments during primary grade levels, educators are able to detect if a students will need support in order to have a greater opportunity at academic success during later years of schooling. The ability to read, comprehend and utilize basis reading strategies (vocabulary, questioning, retelling,…

YSCP Assessment Policy Our Philosophy: YSCP provides a rigor program of instruction guided by the aims and objectives of the Middle Years Programme as well as aligning with Pennsylvania state standards.Its program is dedicated to providing each learner with a balanced program by which students can acquire knowledge and skills necessary to prepare for their future life. To this end, students are given the opportunity to develop higher-order thinking skills in various disciplines along with…

Proposed Action The literature analysis presents possible solutions addressing how PLC’s focused on assessment data can affect student achievement. These solutions were considered in relations to a cyber environment and three were selected for the research study. These solutions include: 1) teachers meeting regularly with content-based PLC groups, 2) a focus on the D3M framework in the PLC environment to drive instructional decisions, and 3) teachers developing shared goals to improve student…

When people hear the word Standardized test they typically think of a very long test that is probably not worth taking. In this generation, testing has become a more common to test a child’s academic levels. When teachers are told to prepare kids for these standardized tests they teach to the test, not to other knowledge children might need to know. Testing in general is used to show what knowledge a person has learned throughout a period of time. In most cases testing is pushed upon children.…

of the other areas slip. This is a constant, uphill battle. In the end, I can only pick a direction and follow the path until it dead-ends and then pick a new direction. From what I have learned in Measurements and Evaluations, assessment is also a balancing act. Each type of assessment has its own pros and cons, but every type also has a purpose. As an educator, I believe that to truly test students fairly on their learning, the tests given must be as diverse and flexible as the students…

presented in my lesson plan I used a formative assessment, an authentic assessment, a formal assessment, and a summative assessment. The formative assessment that I used to asses my students’ knowledge was the individual whiteboards that I used during my whole group instruction. These allowed me to easily and quickly see immediate information on whether or not my students were understanding the content I was presenting. I noticed during this assessment that many of my students probably had prior…

countries, the United States consistently ranks lower than foreign countries on international tests. Martin Carnoy and Richard Rothstein extracted data from average national test scores to examine the claim of Americans scoring the lowest on academic assessments. The findings pointed out that even when factors such as socioeconomic status were compared to an equal opponent American students continually came out on the bottom. Yet, never once has the United States significantly outranked…

Standardized Testing Education can defined as a system that enables people to learn and acquire the skills they need to lead successful lives. In America, this definition appears to be changing rapidly as time goes by. Today’s students are given constant standardized tests, which is very different from students in the past. The tests are having a negative impact on the education of students in America because critical thinking skills and real life skills are not being taught, teachers are…

A wise man by the name of Albert Einstein once said, “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid” As a junior in high school who has taken numerous standardized tests since elementary school, I am very perturbed in how fair or just standardized testing is. With all the controversy going on today about standardized testing, what society fails to realize is that standardized tests are neither fair nor…