The first part of this chapter is all about asessment. It covers all sorts of kinds of assessment and what they are used for. Though I do agree assessment is important in education, I don't believe that all forms of assessment are used correctly.
To start off, I do not like how high stakes assessments are seen as the end-all-be-all when it comes to measuring students performance. There are some students who do not work well in a tradtional test environment. These students are at a disadvantage than other students to passing grades, getting into college, and obtaining scholarships.
However, I believe my favorite type of assessment would have to be formative assessment. I think these types of assessment help the students out the most becaue the teacher discovers what he/she needs to do differently. If these types of assessment were never conducted, the teacher would never know what they might have to adapt to create a better learning environment for the students.
Thank you for your post Cole! I agree that high-stakes testing should not have as much emphasis as it does. As teachers, we need to be able to find the happy medium which leads to students prepared to do well on standardized, high-stakes tests, as well as competency-based, continuous forms of assessment. I also agree that assessment is just as important for the teacher's needs as it is for the students needs. Reflection should come from every assessment you perform.
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