7. The competent teacher understands and uses appropriate formative and summative assessments for determining student needs, monitoring student progress, measuring student growth, and evaluating student outcomes. The teacher makes decisions driven by data about curricular and instructional effectiveness and adjusts practices to meet the needs of each student.
Rationale
Illinois Professional Teaching Standards Connection
Self EvaluationReflection on Test Construction
I have attached a link to a ten question test I was assiged to construct at the application level of Bloom's Taxonomy below. After creating the test on a chapter from the Educational Psychology text, I had ten people take it. After I graded the submissions, I anayzed the resulting data and compiled the findings in the linked Constructed Test Analysis document below.
Upon refection on this assignment, I realized how difficult it is to create tests beyond the remembering and understanding level. After creating the test and analyzing the results I definately learned. I noticed that two of the ten questions weren't written well, my objective wasn't clear and it showed with the inconsistency of the answers that were given. I was easily able to think of different ways to ask the question more clearly. As they say, hindsight is 20/20. I also noticed the varience in effort and ability with the short answer essay questions. It seemed like some people didn't even try to meet the three sentence minimum in the instructions, some people didn't give answers that made sense or explanations and some wrote consise answers that addressed all parts of the questions. Overall, I was happy with my grading and point value system, I felt it was fair and reflected the understanding of the concepts. Although I have taken statistic classes in the past and understood the definitions and what was taught, I felt this assignment made me apply these concepts and I truly understood the meaning of z scores and T scores.
I feel like I learned a lot from this assignment. It felt like real life experience and challenged me to think more deeply about assessing knowledge and learning.