EDUC 461 Lecture 2: lecture 2
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Assessment vs. evaluation: assessment is formative: it is ongoing and provides immediate feedback to improve teaching and learning, evaluation is summative: it is final, generally administered at the end and used to judge quality. Classroom assessment: purpose is to collect meaningful info about what students know and do, types of information collected. Determining students" reading levels that aren"t too easy or too difficult informal assessment tools and strategies appropriate levels: teachers use assessments to match students with books at. Teachers gather this information using a variety of formal and: students are more likely to be successful when they are reading books, three reading levels researchers have identified as being important are. Reading levels: implications for instruction: independent: student reading comfortably on their own for pleasure, instructional: student can read and understand, with support. Target level for guided reading and other teacher-supported reading activities: frustrational: accuracy rate less than 94.
