In: Psychology
What forms of assessment can be use you in your future classroom and why?
Assessment should be way above the conventional report cards and the end unit test, or the grades that define the caliber of a person. This is because these aspects cannot be properly defined by grade cards. Assessment for future classrooms should be such that they should include a comprehensive analysis of the potential of a person. Students should be allowed the scope of concept building and understanding a concept along with developing its abstract idea. Students should be allowed to think on their own and require to identify their evidence source.
Assessment formats may be in the form of formative assessment or summarise assessments. Formative assessments are the assessments that would help in improving learning as well as teaching. These assessments are informal and occur over an extended period. These are informal assessments and need not have data to judge the students. Data may be accumulated from summarise assessments.
Summarise assessments are the cumulative assessments that might occur at the end after the topic coverage is completed. These assessment tests can be used to understand what the student has gathered. This assessment identifies the quality that the child has learnt and this is measured against some standards, these tests may not necessarily be the conventional tests and an example may be evidence collection that has occurred over time, where the student has collected data.