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Student Assessments (Diagnostic or Pre-Assessment.
Assesses student'…
Student Assessments
Diagnostic or Pre-Assessment.
Assesses student's strengths, weaknesses, knowledge and skills prior to instruction. (TeachThought Staff, 2018)
Is designed** for learning and of learning because it assesses the student's previous knowledge and gives a teacher an important information on the student's academical needs.
Advantages: -establishes a baseline for the class;
-allows for better differentiation;
-provides a frame of reference for later assessments.
Disadvantages: - may cause a teacher to make incorrect inferences about child's ability level. (Jenkins T., 2015)
Every child when coming to our school goes through MAP test. There is also a special assessment test made by teacher in IE class which involves reading, writing, comprehension and speaking.
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Summative. Measures student's achievement after instruction. (Teach Thought Staff, 2018)
Indicated for assessment of learning, because it is used in the end of teaching and provides the data for the next stage in education. It is gradable.
Advantages: - provide motivation to study and pay attention in class;
- gives a great insight to a teacher;
Disadvantages: - reflects on teachers' performance, many instructors are accused of teaching "to the test";
- results are sometimes not accurate depending on the conditions under which this test is made. (Concordia University, 2013)
Example: posters with the use of studied vocabulary, essays, topic packets
Performance-based/authentic. Requires students to demonstrate their learning and understanding by performing an act. The tasks and conditions are more closely aligned to what you would experience within employment. This form of assessment is designed to develop students skills and competencies alongside academic development.(University of Exeter, n.d.)
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Advantages: - develops students skills and competencies alongside academic development;
- learning occurs during the process of assessment;
- students use thinking and revision skills.
Disadvantages: - not easily accountable;
- time consuming. (University of Exeter, n,d,)
Examples: students' work in a group to accomplish the task, writing essays, demonstrating experiment, showing and explaining how something is working.
High-Stakes test is any test used to make important decisions about students, educators, schools, or districts, most commonly for the purpose of accountability. (Hurst, n.d.)
Advantages:
- determins a yearly progress in meeting State determined standards;
-accountable
- can highlight gaps in an individual student's knowledge, classroom achievement gaps or school achievement gaps;
- may also motivate students to improve their performance, especially when test results are tied to high school diplomas and grade promotion.
Disadvantages:
- may lead to inaccurate results of student performance, due to non-test factors, such as anxiety and motivation, of the test-taker;
- teachers end up teaching to the test;
- do not assess critical thinking skills;
- there are different test criteria for each state which may lead to different conclusions on school's and student's performance;
- there is an emphasis on punishing rather then helping. (Hurst, n,d,)
This is an assessment of learning as it assesses not only the knowledge of individual student, but also performance of a techer/school/district/state.
Examples: any language profeciency tests, MAP test
Portfolio is a form of alternative assessment intended to accumulate evidence to measure growth over time of a student’s or teacher’s performance. It is a purposeful collection of student work that exhibits student’s efforts, progress and achievements in one or more areas. (Rosal, 2014)
Advantages: - provides samples of the student’s work which shows growth over time;
-Done by teacher and student: student is aware of criteria;
- Embedded in instruction
- Involves students into their own assessment;
-Is a tool for assessing a variety of skills.
Disadvantages: - barely accountable;
-the instructor needs to develop individualized criteria for assessment;
- time-consuming;- the data taken from the portfolio can be difficult ot analyze. (Rosal, 2014)
Represents assessment for learning as the data extracted from a portfolio is used mostly by teacher and student to see the growth.
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Peer Assessment/Self assessment is a process whereby students or their peers grade assignments or tests based on a teacher’s benchmarks. (Wikipedia, 2018)
Advantages: - promotes lifelong learning skills; -reduces stress; - encourages reflection; - facilitates better learning from seing other students' success and weaknesses; - improves students' motivation. (Hernandez, 2010)
Disadvantages:- barely accountable; hard to extract the data from it; - a teacher may miss out some mistakes that can influence the future learning.
Intended for learning as this type of assessment is ongoing and used only for a better understanding of concepts, not for grading/retrieving data.
Examples: self-evaluation paper, questionaire,2 stars and a fish, any group work.