EDUC4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lab Report, Standardized Test, Multiple Choice
Week Two
Lecture Two: Introduction to Assessment
Assessment
- Celebration of Learning
o Critically give effective feedback and tell them how to improve
o Loving, critical way
Effective assessment (Only effective if it addresses both aspects)
- Benefits for Teachers
o Information to make decisions about teaching
- Benefits for Students
o Information to make decisions about learning
Stakeholders
- Explain the results in detail to students, parents, principal and other teachers
- Accountability
(Refer to in scholarly article) → Legally mandated to adhere to
- Assessment should be
o An integral part of teaching
▪ Good tot talk about when referring to formative assessment
▪ Natural part of the teaching and learning process, as it happens in the
point of need
▪ Plan of what students can do
▪ Planning for your assessment strategy
o Educative
▪ Contribute to student learning
▪ Effective feedback
o Fair
▪ Take into consideration the diversity of students
▪ Different learning abilities and styles in the classroom
▪ Don’t write different objectives for different students
• Reach the same objective, but using a different path
▪ Show an attainment of the knowledge and skills
• Provide opportunities for children to show you want they know
o Designed to meet their specific purposes
▪ Summative and formative
▪ Think of this for your assignment
▪ Meet the need of the task
• Are you choosing the right assessment strategy for the task
o Lead to informative reporting
▪ Australia wide reporting
▪ Need the information to inform your reporting
• Time consuming
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• Grid type of assessment works to address all children
▪ Using words everyone understands
o Lead to school-wide evaluation processes
▪ Good schools will take notice of the qualitative and quantitative results
▪ Could work well if used as a form of data to plan PD
• As results come out in later months, data is useless as time is lost
- Make sure you can tick these off for the assessment strategy in your assignment
Purpose of Assessment
- What am I trying to find out? And how will I do that?
- Plan for the children’s needs
- Help students by recognising their understanding and skill level and planning instructional
strategies to match
- Assess students’ performance at a certain point in time
- Report to stake holders
- To plan effective learning experiences for each student
Guidelines for selecting and using classroom Assessments
1. Be clear about the learning targets you want to assess
o Measureable, objective assessments
o Reporting on the curriculum
2. Be sure that the assessment techniques you select match each learning target
o Match the task to a good assessment strategy
3. Be sure that the assessment techniques serve the needs of the learner
o Effective feedback
4. Whenever possible, use multiple indicators for each learning target
5. Ensure that when you interpret results you take the limitations of such results into account
What we hear and think
- Negative connotations of assessment
- When most people think about assessment, images of tests come to mind: (Assessment task)
o Essay exams
o Multiple choice tests
o Standardised tests
o Physical performance tests
- THESE ARE NOT ASSESSMENT STRATEGEIES
Assessment should be more than just testing
- Must include a wide variety of assessment strategies
- Ensures that all learning styles are catered for
- This is necessary because
o High-quality assessment helps teachers become clearer about the goals of their
teaching
o High-quality assessment helps students to achieve more
o High-quality assessment leads to better intervention for ‘at risk’ students
- Examples of high-quality assessment
o First Steps
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