Assessment

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 * //What does it mean to **understand**?//
 * //Why do we assess, what should we assess, how should we assess it?//
 * //How can we use assessment as a tool for **informing instruction and improving student performance**?//
 * //How can we use **performance-based assessments** to design effective learning experiences for students?//
 * //How can we provide students with timely **feedback** that will help them to improve their performance?//
 * //How can technology help us to **record and report student performance**?//
 * //How can we adapt assessment practices for students with **exceptionalities**?//

=Quotes on Assessment=

"A grade is an inadequate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite amount of material" (Dr. Roger T. Taylor)

"In a very real sense, tests have invented all of us. They play an important role in determining that opportunities are offered to or withheld from us, they mold the expectations and evaluations that other form of us (and we form of them), and they heavily influence our assessments of our own abilities and worth. Therefore, although testing is usually considered to be a means of appraising qualities that are already present in a person, in actuality, the individual in contemporary society is not so much measured by tests as constructed by them" (Hanson, F. Allan. The invention of intelligence. //Education Week.//)

=**Principles of Assessment**=

=**Purposes of Assessment**=

=**Assessment Resources**=

>>> [|Correcting Compositions with a Highlighter] >>> Getting Organized >>> [|Homework & Teacher Paperload] >>> [|My students won't work unless I grade it all!] >>> Online Quiz-making Tools >>> [|Quick Homework Check-ins] >>> Rating Scales >>> Rubrics >>> [|Rubistar] - A free, online rubric generator that teachers can use to generate and then customize their rubrics for class projects and activities >>> Tips on Checking Papers
 * ======**Closure Activities**======
 * ======**Course Evaluations**======
 * ======**Feedback, Grading, Recording, & Reporting**======
 * Checklists
 * Federal Educational Rights & Privacy Act Regulations (FERPA)
 * Grading Programs
 * Homework Activities
 * Managing the Paper Overload [[file:Paper Load.doc]]
 * [|Quibblo.com]
 * [|Quiz School]
 * [|Studiyo]
 * [|Survey Monkey]
 * [|Zoomerang]
 * Formative Assessment: http://kww.net/mans/handouts/40quick.pdf - Awesome, creative, LOW PREP ideas for checking students' understanding
 * ======Informal Assessment======
 * In order to informally assess where students are at, pass around an enevelope with a "Question of the Day" on it, relating to the material that is being covered. The students pass the envelope with the question around, and write an answer on a piece of paper and put it in the envelope, but do not have to put their names. This way, students can be honest without being worried about getting a wrong or write answer, and the teacher can get an idea as to how the class is doing with that topic. The teacher my mentor got the idea from uses this activity as a "get out of class pass" and does it the last 5 minutes of class. In order to leave the room, the students must answer the question. You could do it in the beginning as well, as part of a warm-up. Or, you could have students put their names on their answer occasionally and have that for participation points or use it to mark attendance. user:kendal53
 * Peer Assessment
 * ======Performance-based Assessment======
 * **[|Grading Projects] (Aesthetics v. Content)**
 * **[|Letter to Parents]**
 * **Modeling (Sample Student Projects)**
 * **On Top of Old Smokey Song**
 * **[|Parental Perspectives on Projects] - From the Disney Boards**
 * **Project Ideas**
 * **[|Project Letter] - A letter explaining the importance of projects to parents**
 * **Scaffolding Student Participation (Process Guides)**
 * ======Self-assessment======
 * **[|Linguafolio Grid] - VERY nice, one-page matrix of "Can Do" statements that outlines what students should be able to do at low, mid, and high for novice, intermediate, advanced, and superior in the interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes**
 * ======Traditional Assessments======
 * **Quiz & Test Construction (See [|Vocabulary Quizzes])**
 * **Testing Miss Malarkey**
 * **[|Test-taking Rules] - A list of rules that help teachers avoid having to "accuse" students of cheating**
 * **[|Test-taking Rules] - A list of rules that help teachers avoid having to "accuse" students of cheating**


 * Annotated List of Articles, Books, & Other Resources Related to Assessment**


 * [|Oral Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom: Planning, Conducting, & Managing the Possible Dream] - Fantastic resource from North Carolina with simple steps for creating assessments as well as great examples of checklists, different kinds of rubrics (analytic v. holistic), etc.**


 * [|Using Reflective Assessment to Support Student Learning] - This electronic newsletter from the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center will connect you to ideas, information, and materials that will help you to reflect on your current uses of assessment and, perhaps, to examine some new approaches user:chericem1**


 * See also: Classroom Management, Curriculum Development, Inquiry-Research-Reflection, School Improvement**


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