- Bloom’s taxonomy answers the question about what students should be able to do with their knowledge and specifies six ways students can demonstrate their knowledge. These areas are remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create.
- Validity is the degree to which a test measures what it was intended to measure and reliability is the consistency of the test results. Both are characteristics of high quality tests because a test should focus on the information covered in the unit that is being tested. Also, we need a test that could be given on two different days with no different instruction and the results would be the same. These are necessary for the test to be effective in helping change curriculum or teaching.
- Product performance assessment: a science lab with a finished chemical experiment and a write up at the end
Process performance assessment: playing the flute for the teacher
- Checklist: quick an easy way to assess based on a list of criteria that are present or not
Rating scale: assign scores of quality for a various list of elements of a process or product
Rubric: can assess the quality of multiple criteria, can evaluate complex tasks
- Assessment bias can make an elementary school teacher not realize the true needs of their students. They may think just because a student is gifted, they perform well academically or because they like a student, they give a student higher grades. Teachers may also give all students marks that are too high or too low. Teachers should be concerned with this because they want to know the true performance of their students in order to provide the best instruction possible.
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Nancy, I like that you said it is important that assessments are valid and reliable because it helps teachers know what they need to change in their teaching and curriculum. I think sometimes we think that the students are at fault if a test doesn't go well,or that the wording of the assessment needs to be changed. It is great to look at it from the perspective that teachers need to improve.
-Nichole Mahas
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