1f: Designing Student Assessments

Good teaching requires both assessment of learning and assessment for learning. Assessments of learning ensure that teachers know that students have learned the intended outcomes. These assessments must be designed in such a manner that they provide evidence of the full range of learning outcomes; that is, the methods needed to assess reasoning skills are different from those for factual knowledge. Furthermore, such assessments may need to be adapted to the particular needs of individual students; an ESL student, for example, may need an alternative method of assessment to allow demonstration of understanding. Assessment for learning enables a teacher to incorporate assessments directly into the instructional process and to modify or adapt instruction as needed to ensure student understanding. Such assessments, although used during instruction, must be designed as part of the planning process. These formative assessment strategies are ongoing and may be used by both teachers and students to monitor progress toward understanding the learning outcomes.

Danielson, C., 2013

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This is an assessment that I created for my Senior Practicum. I have been teaching a unit on Adverbs and I made a selected response test to analyze what I have been teaching and see what part of adverbs I should teach more in depth. I found it easy to make a test on something you have been working on and see what the students have learned based on your teaching. I found that making it similar to what they already have been doing and making it so that they can recognize what was taught. Creating an assessment can tell you the needs of an individual student which is an important part in teaching!

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I designed this assessment for younger kids. I made it so the teacher or assessor can analyze the words and work with that student on what they know and don't understand. Creating this assessment helped me analyze my group of students on what words they understood and the skills they could perform. It helped me have a better idea of what they are struggling with. It helped me work with those individuals more and see exactly what they were missing. Creating an assessment can just help to figure out where your students are which is an essential part to teaching.