Forms of Assessment
Blog Prompts
Posts due December 1st at 11pm, comments due December 4th at 11pm
Blog Post 1
- Discuss one question, confusion you have from reading Modules 26 and 28
- One of the big ideas for Module 26 is understanding the difference between formative/summative/informal/formal forms of assessment. Despite some intuition, a formal assessment can be formative and a summative assessment can be informal. Fill in an example of how each of these can be used. You can use the chart, make your own, or write them out.
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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTSUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTFORMALLY ASSESSED
INFORMALLY ASSESSED
- SIMPLY BY LOOKING AT IT (or watching it), how can you tell whether an assessment is formative or summative? .... (HINT: This is a trick question. You can't, but why? HINT 2: The two kinds of assessment are defined in how they're used after the assessment moment....)
Blog Post 2
- Discuss a question or confusion from reading Module 28
- Performance assessment is important for most of you because you are assessing a performance or action of some kind. How is this kind of activity different from other kinds of assessment? What might performance assessment look like in your content area and how, specifically, might you assess learning through performance?
Issues in Standardized Testing
Due December 8th at 11pm, comments due December 11th at 11pm
Blog Post
- Discuss one question or confusion you have from reading Module 30.
- What are some of the tensions that arise (for students, teacher, and schools) from high stakes standardized testing? Why do these arise?
- What are high stakes tests measuring, exactly? Are they measuring intelligence or something else? How do you know?
- If a student fails a standardized test (gets a 50% score), is it because of the test or the student? How do you know?
