McMillan, J. H., & Moore, S. (2020). Better Being Wrong (Sometimes): ClassroomAssessment that Enhances Student Learning and Motivation. The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues, and Ideas, 1–8. doi:10.1080/00098655.2020.1721414

The journal, written by Mcmillan and Moore, proposes that making mistakes (sometimes) within the classroom is a necessary part of the educational process that facilitates learning, increases motivation, and help them establish a positive disposition inside the classroom. Researchers have analyzed three areas that support that making mistakes is essential: mindsets, neurology, and self-regulation. The journal suggests that adequate instruction, appropriate classroom assessment, and a positive learning environment that stimulates a culture of positive learning from mistakes is crucial for learners to develop a 'growth mindset’. When teachers focus solely only on students who give correct answers while expressing dissatisfaction to those who provide incorrect answers then quickly move to other responses without offering prompts to help students correct their errors, the teacher only further perpetuates a negative being wrong climate. The authors put emphasis on the following practices that promote being wrong as a chance to learn: that classroom assessment must be design as an assessment for learning, must reduce detrimental text anxiety, the use of high-quality assessments, authentic assessment, challenging, moderately difficult assessments, use common misconceptions, use constructed-response assessments, use frequent-short assessments and make assessments transparent. Students should have ample time to think about the answers, allow them to work in groups so they can discuss ideas with their peers, and create a learning environment where having a mistake is normal and even encouraged. Teachers must design classroom assessment more as a step toward greater understanding rather than as a "final" indicator of their competence.

As pre-service teacher, I believe that it is really important that a teacher has a competent skill in developing and writing an effective assessment tool to ensure that the students are learning in the class. A teacher also should know many ways and strategies on how to employ good assessment tools that really measures student's learning but keep in mind that there is a fitted and suitable assessment type to every learning competency that you want to measure. Therefore, It is vital that you know how to decide and choose the right and appropriate tool `in measuring the learnings of the students.

Upon thinking about the assessments to be implemented in class, I realized that aside from our benefit from it by knowing the right approach and strategies to be employed as a result of the assessment, the most beneficiary of these assessments in class are the students because through the results of their assessment of learning, we, teacher, can know the strengths of our teaching instruction that should be perpetuated and weaknesses that needs be improved to give them the best possible quality of education they deserve.