Hinchman and Thomas Ch. 19
This chapter focus on assessment in literacy at the secondary levels. Literacy is in all aspects in secondary education. Therefore many students are having trouble with literacy. RTI is an approach to screening struggling readers. It's a way for teachers to identify and respond. Another tool teachers use is called CARI (content area reading inventory). The results can be turned into instructional strategies to help students learn. CARI is flexible and can be differentiated based on students need. CARI can be develop by the teacher to asses the needs they want. By using assessments to improve teaching instruction, students can get better differentiated help they need.
Afflerbach
This article looked at how to make assessments. The three questions he suggested must be asked when thinking about assessment are:
1. how do we assess?
2. Why do we assess?
3. What do we assess?
When making assessments teachers must consider cognition, observation, and interpretation. By using the CURRV framework teachers can reference it to decide what an appropriate assessment type work for certain things. It's important to choose assessment that go along with the assignments. Teachers need to obtain certain information by choose the right assessment. The chapter ends by talking about how important it is to use professional development to focus on assessments. The assessments need to left in the teachers hands. Where the teachers is aware of what the child needs and can accomplish.
Moje and Hinchman
This chapter focus on the need to use culturally response practices. This type of practices focuses on being respectful to ones culture and meeting their learning needs. By honoring students as individuals, they learn respect and tolerance. Teachers need to know individual discourse and work on differentiating their funds of knowledge. Being culturally responsive helps build classroom communities.
Text to Text
The text this week discuss different assessments and there need for them. Knowing why assessment is important to learning helps teachers develop appropriate assessments.
Text to Self
Text to World
Assessments are important regardless of how you feel about them. They help teachers understand where they lack in teaching and were there students need help. The world is full of different types of test/assessments throughout life. Therefore it's important to help students understand why assessment are needed. It's also important to develop assessments that are appropriate for certain task.
Questions:
Do you make your own assessments? or do you usually use a pre made assessment?
Hi Kaitlin!
ReplyDeleteI have never made my own assessment, or at least not the typical assessment. In the first grade classroom where I student taught, we really wouldn't take many paper and pencil assessments. The students would take online benchmarks to track their progress. These assessments were required by the district. I have experience creating lessons and assignments but not structured assessments.