Classroom Assessments

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As teachers, we have to monitor the progress our students make each day, week, quarter and year. Classroom assessments are one of the most crucial educational tools for teachers. When assessments are properly developed and interpreted, they can help teachers better understand their students learning progress and needs, by providing the resources to collect evidence that indicates what information their students know and what skills they can perform. Assessments help teachers to not only identify and monitor learners’ strengths, weaknesses, learning and progress but also help them to better plan and conduct instruction. For these reasons, ongoing classroom assessment is the glue that binds teaching and learning together and allows educators to monitor their efficacy and student learning. In spite of the importance of assessment in education, few teachers receive proper training on how to design or analyze assessments. Due to this, when teachers are not provided with suitable assessments from their textbooks or instructional resources, teachers construct their own in an unsystematic manner. They create questions and essay prompts comparable to the ones that their teachers used, and they treat them as evaluations to administer when instructional activities are completed predominantly for allocating students' grades. In order to use assessments to improve instruction and student learning, teachers need to change their approach to assessments by making sure that they create sound assessments. To ensure that their assessments are sound they need include five basic indicators that can be used as steps to follow when creating assessments. The first of these indicators and the first step a teacher must take when creating a sound assessme... ... middle of paper ... ...tml#lesson Johnson, S., & Media, D. (2013). What Are Raw Scores? | The Classroom | Synonym. Retrieved December 1, 2013, from http://classroom.synonym.com/raw-scores-4447.html Munday, J. (2012, June 9). TESTING TERMS. Retrieved December 1, 2013, from http://www.hishelpinschool.com/testing/test4.html Pearson, (2013). How Standardized Tests Are Created For Your Child. Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQHoNfdbwMs Schultzkie, L. (2012). Percentiles. Retrieved December 1, 2013, from http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/math/Algebra/AD6/quartiles.htm Stiggins, R., Arter, J., Chappuis, J., Chappuis, S., (2007). Classroom assessment for student learning: Doing it right -- using it well. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson. Wormeli, R. (2010). Formative and Summative Assessment. Stenhouse Publishers. Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJxFXjfB_B4

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