Assessments
Assessments are crucial to both students and teachers. Students view assessments as a means of showing their knowledge in the content area for points or a grade. To educators, student assessments are reflections of their teaching. It is a quick way to tell whether or not students are grasping the material and to see if your teaching methods apply to a specific class or a specific student. I think that formative assessments can help educators track their own teaching effectiveness, and in turn will track the abilities of a student. Summative assessments seem important only for grading purposes, but the truth is that if a student is not doing well on formative assessments, something needs to be changed because they will not do well on the summative assessment.
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I agree with ya...however (this is for the sake of arguing) just cause an assessment is not assessing a students ability to learn in a test, does not mean the teachers strategies are not working, some kids just might be bad test takers. I dont know...
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point about some students being bad test takers. That reinforces what we were talking about in class - that formative assessments probably are more important in the long run.
ReplyDeleteYea formative assessments are the most important by far. By the time the summative assessments roll around it is already too late to help the student grasp the material they need to be successful.
ReplyDeletep.s. I am a bad test taker, but that doesn't mean that I don't know the material, sometimes I just have trouble focusing for an extended period of time. I'm sure there are many students that share the same frustrations as me when it comes around to "Test Time".
Basica has valid points. Assessments are used to help understand the needs of our students.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you!
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