assessment classroom

• Classroom Assessment


  Determining purpose and learning targets, systematically obtaining information from students, interpreting the information collected, and using the information
• High-Quality Classroom Assessment


  Involves different criteria that concern themselves with how assessment influences learning and provides fair and credible reporting of student achievement, with the primary determinant of quality being how the information impacts students
• Criteria for High-Quality Classroom Assessments

  • Clear and appropriate learning targets or instructional objectives
  • Appropriateness of assessment methods
  • Matching targets with methods
  • Validity
  • Reliability
  • Fairness
  • Positive consequences
  • Practicality and efficiency
• Learning targets


  • Should include both what students should know and can do, and the criteria for judging the performance
• Appropriateness of assessment methods


  • Objective test items are popular ways of assessing student learning, but teachers sometimes ask students to submit a project or do some activities
• Matching assessment methods


  To learning targets (knowledge, reasoning, skills, products, affective)
• Validity


  Appropriateness of the inferences, uses and consequences that result from the test or other methods of gathering information
• Reliability


  Consistency, stability and dependability of the results
• Fairness


  Providing all students with an equal opportunity to demonstrate achievement
• Positive consequences


  Assessment should affect student motivation, making them more or less likely to be meaningfully involved
• Practicality and efficiency


  Assessment should not take away too much time from instruction or energy needed for activities
• Types of Assessment Methods


  • Objective Tests
  • Essay Tests
  • Oral Question
  • Observation Assessment
  • Performance-based Assessments
  • Self-report
• Objective Tests


  • Students either select a response from two or more possibilities, or supply a one-or two-word answer
• Essay Tests


  • Allow students to construct a response requiring several sentences in length
• Oral Question


  • Teacher asks students questions, engages them in verbal interaction using individual or group enterprise
• Observation Assessment

  • Teachers watch and listen to students as they respond, study, speak and discuss
• Performance-based Assessments


  • Require students to demonstrate a skill or proficiency by creating, producing, or doing something in a real-world setting
• Self-report


  • Students complete a form or answer questions to reveal how they think about themselves or rate themselves