STANDARD 7: ASSESSMENT

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.

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Formative assessments are important to the growth and understanding of the students and the knowledge that they are obtaining from their education. This is supported by Illinois Professional Teaching Standards number 7 that talks about assessments and using them to further your students and your teaching. In the standard there are performance indicators that I will reference later to support the idea that this assignment fulfilled this standard.

Through creating and analyzing my assessment I was able to see how formative assessments are important. Through creating the test I was able to see important how each question was, and that as an educator I need to be able to create or identify questions at different levels of blooms taxonomy to gauge the ability of students to learn at each level. Through using google forms for a quiz and results and using both manual and technology-based calculators for z and t scored I was able address performance indicator 7O that says educators should be able to effectively use appropriate technologies to conduct assessments, monitor progress and assess student progress.

Through analyzing my “students” results I learned the value of seeing the whole picture as to what they learned and what they did not and how the wording and level of each question affected those results. This fulfilled performance indicator 7J that says educators should uses assessment results to determine student performance levels, identify learning targets, select appropriate research-based instructional strategies, and implement instruction to enhance learning outcomes. It also showed me how I can move forward after seeing results, both positive and negative.

Through analyzing both the highest and lowest scoring student I was forced to think not only how to help the students that need more support, but also how to help the students that are already learning at the target level and how to propel them forward and not let them stay still in their learning but progress. Through maintaining a useful record of each students and the class as a whole to assess student performance and use the information in the future, I am displaying performance indicator 7M that says that educators should maintains useful and accurate records of student work and performance.