Going into week one, I had a basic definition for assessment. I knew an assessment measured a skill/subject to determine where students were at within the skill. I knew that a form of assessment was quizzes and tests. During week one, I learned that evaluations measure a student's skill level, not just with tests and quizzes. Teachers observing, recording, and using multi-modal assessments on students are also ways to run assessments. Multi-modal means that students should not be assessed using one form of assessment; they should be assessed in multiple ways with both informal and formal assessments, to get the most accurate assessment of the student. Informal assessments include things like observations, checklists, rubrics, etc. --- all things created by the teacher. Informal assessment includes formative assessments which give feedback to both student and teacher and are given on an as-needed basis. Formal assessments include tests, quizzes, and surveys, all things I thought were the only way to assess a student. Formal assessment is the umbrella term for summative assessments, assessments that cover a variety of skills and are given at the end of a unit/term.
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| Rating Scale |
I want to use these different types of assessments in my classroom since they all can be used for different things. If I need to assess a student's behavior, I might just use a rating scale (formal assessment) to assess their behavior and actions in class.
If I want to measure my student's knowledge of a subject we're learning, I might design an analytic rubric to assess each part of the knowledge that they are/are not retaining.
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| Rubric |
All in all, have earned a helpful amount of knowledge on the different types of assessments and how/when to use them.
~Shaniyah
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