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- Two types of assessment
- Formative assessments
- Summative assessments
- Pretests, Inventories, and Observations
- Items included on a pretest can be:
- Prerequisite skills
- Course skills
- Next course skills
- Error Analysis
- Patterns of errors
- Study of Cawley et al.
- Study of Vallecorsa and deBettencourt
- Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM)
- Definition of CBM
- Suggestions for using curriculum-based measures:
- Teaching students how to assess each other for CBM.
- Accessing volunteers, para-educators, or special educators to focus on specific students.
- Selecting representative students from their class diversity to use CBM, and use those students' data as indicators of how similar peers are performing.
- Rubrics
- Examples: self-evaluation, writing persuasive arguments
- Homework
- Middle school students' preferences for homework assignments:
- Finish the assignments at school
- Work in small groups to complete the assignment
- Earn extra credit for assignment completion
- Middle school students' less desired preferences for homework assignments:
- Giving fewer assignments to certain students
- Giving different assignments to different students
- Requiring use f an assignment notebook
- Portfolio Assessment
- Considerations for using portfolios:
- Purpose
- Types of projects or products
- Scoring criteria
- Match between outcome and criteria
- Report Card Grades
- Personalized grading plans
- School district policies on grading
- Conclusion
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