Assessment
Published on Aug 30, 2016
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Assessment
- A process of obtaining information that is used for making decisions about students (curricula, programs, schools etc.)
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Assessment Purposes
- Preassessment: Diagnostic tool to understand what knowledge your students bring into the classroom
- Formative: Provides information for improvement as learning progresses
- Summative: A final evaluation of accomplishment on a given assessment at a given point in time
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Basic Terms
- Test: An instrument for describing one or more characteristics of a student using either a numerical scale or classification scheme
- Measurement: Assigning numbers (scores) to a specific attribute or characteristic of a person such that the number describes to what degree the person possesses the attribute
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- Evaluation: The process of making a value judgement about the worth of a student's product or performance
- Achievement: Student performance of the learning goals (how well they show what they know)
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Grading
- A record of your students' progress
- Summative (final)
- Grades should be based on more than test scores
- Use a variety of assessment techniques
- Should communicate student acivement of learning goals
- Should be based on high-quality evidence
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Teacher's Professional Responsibilities
- Use sound principles of assessment planning, design, task development, rubric development
- Make sure your assessments are free of bias
- Accommodate your stduents appropriately
- Provide sufficient information to students
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- Scoring should be accurate fair and timely
- Explain your scoring
- Interpret results in light of learning targets
- Use more than one assessment to make decisions about students
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