Assessment of Students and Textbooks

1. Assessment of Students and Textbooks

2. What Should Teachers Know About Assessment? • High-stakes testing influences public perceptions about educational effectiveness • To have evidence of student learning • Assessment results can be used to inform and improve instruction

3. Purposes for Assessing Students • Formative Assessment – designed to discover student attributes that might help or hinder learning. • Helps teachers to plan optimal learning situations for students • Summative Assessment – intended to make a judgment of what a person has learned. • Communicates student achievement to the student and other interested parties

4. Standardized tests Authentic assessments Performance assessments State assessments National assessments Types of Assessment

5. How do state assessments affect, either positively or negatively, the ways that teachers teach?

6. Interest and attitude surveys Systematic observation Teacher-designed assessments Parent input Samples of daily work Journals (kept by both teacher and student) Planning Effective Instruction : Important information about students can come from other sources

7. Strategic Knowledge • Students with reading problems often cannot apply different strategies to achieve different reading purposes. • They focus on decoding rather than on the end result – what they can get out of the text. • Teaching students strategies can close the gap between proficient and struggling readers.

8. Interviews or self-reports are the best way of determining how strategic students are in their reading. An alternative is for students to “think aloud” during reading or studying but most students are uncomfortable or have not learned the strategy. Strategic Knowledge

9. fair Clearly explained to students Relatively uncomplicated Based on key elements of the curriculum Flexible and give students many ways to earn credit Carefully designed Inclusive of rubrics and/or itemized lists of criteria A grading system should be…

10. Attitude Surveys • Rating Surveys are available to assess the general reading attitudes of your students • Provide information about positive/negative attitudes • Can be used as a pre/post test to document progress over the school year.