EDPY303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Concision, Multiple Choice, Test Plan
11 Mar 2017
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Communicate results in a way that is understandable and meaningful. Teachers are asked to make decisions that greatly impact students. Choosing, developing, administering, scoring and interpreting assessments. Identifying what is important to learn about assessment. Making sense of the language of assessment. Understanding the standards inherent in pos outcomes. Communicating assessment results to students and parents. Identifying the fairest way to assess each student. Focus on competencies not just straight knowledge. Facts should not just be assessed all the time. Can be a big concept or little concept. Review: correct answers: regularly evaluate students and periodically , rank students based on performance, when assessing students on what they have learned, a teacher"s ensures that assessments are appropriate measures, have some degree of success without teacher support. Most popular book is embedded formative assessment. Teach students material, at the end we ask if they have learned it. In this brief video he discusses benefits of formative assessment or not.
