Chapter 1 Definitions Flashcards
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Assessment
Collect, synthesis, and interpret information to aid teacher in decision making. (Progress)
Find out what students know.
Formative assessment
Feedback while we are teaching. We can still improve.
Examples: Observation, quiz, homework, questions, case study, cooperative learning, journaling, peer evaluation, and KWL
Key to formative assessments
Timely feedback.
Summative assessment
Grade, or final judgement about students learning.
Example: Final project or test.
Official assessment
Carrying out the bureaucratic aspects of teaching such as grading, grouping, and placing.
Anything that gets turned into the office.
Instructional assessment
Planning and delivering instructions, then reflect.
Lesson plan.
Sizing up assessment
Learn about student’s social, academic, and behavioral characteristics. That helps to enhance instruction, communication, and cooperation in classroom.
Know your students.
Test
Formal, systematic, usually paper and pencil procedure for gathering information.
Showing teacher what students know.
Measurement
Quantify or assigning a number to a performance.
Grading and compare progress to standard.
Evaluation
Making judgements about the quality of goodness of performance or a course of action.
Selection Questions
Student responds to question by making a choice from choices provided.
Multiple choice, true/false, matching.
Supply Items
Students construct response.
Short answer, fill in the blank, and essay.
Performance Assessment
Observing and judging a skill in actually carrying out a physical activity or producing a product.
Presentation, product, and activity.
Observation Techniques
Watching or listening to students performing an activity or producing a product.
Rubric or checklist.
Oral Questioning
Asking questions to students verbally.
Teacher listening to responses-making decisions about instruction/learning.
Standardized Assessment
Assessments that are administered, scored, and interpreted the same for all students taking the test - not possible for everyone to pass.
ITBS, ACT, SAT, Praxis
NonStandardized Assessments
Teacher made, developed for a single classroom with a single group of students and not for comparison with other groups.
Teacher writes and all can get an A.
Validity
Whether the information gathered is relevant to the decision.
Did teacher assess what was taught? Did the student demonstrate competence or behavior. (late policy)
Reliability
Stability or consistency of assessment results.
Teacher can count on results over and over.
Ethics
Right vs. wrong.
