Summative assessment

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…

creating and designing effective assessments to see what students learned. Assessments can come in a variety of tasks, and it is important that teachers demonstrate this by using different methods of assessment. As an educator, it is important that I address the six aspects of the assessment process that are goals, role, audience, situation, product or performance, and standards. There are three types of assessments that teachers implement when designing assessments, and they are diagnostic,…

1. Write the result of the Personality Type self-assessment you took in class. My personality type is INTP-T. I enjoy daydreaming about my goals and my future. I also like to lie down and close my eyes and think about things about life. Moreover, I find it hard to comfort someone verbally when they are in need of emotional support. I’m always open to unfamiliar ideas as long as they sound logical to me. It is not easy for me to make friends. The reason is I value Intellectuality over being…

Item Writing When developing questions for a low, medium or high stakes examination an important consideration is that of legal defensibility. In particular how consistently did the questions measure a students response and did it measure what it was supposed to. In order to achieve this, its important to understand the structure and approach that should be followed. The first task is to access the course objectives which allows extraction of the key concepts and learning points by topic area.…

The assessment plan created in EDFO 483, utilizes several methods of assessments used to collect data to assess students’ understanding of the material, to assess changes the teacher may need to make, and to analyze how accurately students’ demonstrate their understanding of the learning objectives associated with the lesson. The information gathered in this assessment plan can be used to redesign instruction, reformulate instructional methods and teaching strategies, and gather data regarding…

collected prior to placement such as Oneschool information and previous assessment items assisted in the lesson planning by allowing me to identify not only the students’ academic levels to date, but also note that all students spoke English as their first language, none of the students identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and there were no students with disabilities (1.3 - 1.6 AITSL, 2011). The summative assessment for the topic, and curriculum expectations also informed the…

1.1 Assessment – Purpose and value Assessments take on many forms, but all have one distinctive purpose, to empower a teacher with a resource that gathers information about students that will later be used for evaluating and analysing students’ knowledge and understanding, guiding teachers on what to report about a student’s achievement to the relevant stakeholders. Krause describes assessment as “The gathering and analysing of information about a student’s achievement”. (date). Assessing and…

Assessment forms an integral part of both education and real life, assessment of understanding, peer feedback, and self-assessment form a central part of social processes and therefore mediate the development of intellectual abilities, construction of knowledge, and formation of a students' identity (Shepard, 2000). Assessment of learning also provides a metacognitive awareness for the student and creates accountability for pedagogical strategies and curriculum policies. Metacognitive awareness…

primary need to include assessments among their learning programs. Assessment provides a valuable source of information that illustrates learning in progress. A wide range of methods used in collaboration with children, families, and other professional support networks will gain a deeper insight of data. Curriculum frameworks and education government agencies highlight the importance of assessment as it provides high quality learning and teaching. Educators need assessment tools to report on…

But we cannot talk of education and schools without talking about assessments. Assessments are the means in which teachers determine if students have learned the intended objective. They are used for grade level placement, specific skill identification and even program and teacher evaluation. Formative Assessment Assessments cover a wide range of activities in the classroom including formative assessments. A formative assessment is an informal way to look at in progress indicators of student…