Assessment

I loved to learn about assessment and seeing it being applied in the class that I am observing. I didnt get the opportunity to talk to my coop teacher about assessment yet and what she likes to do but I can tell you what I have noticed.

I saw that the teacher used a lot of formative assessment. She did it informally as she walked around as asked each student if they had a question or why they thought that was the answer. She also asked if they felt good about the subject and what they felt like they needed help on. She also got to assess them formally. She did a quiz one morning about the items that they have been reviewing. She did this to make sure that everyone was on the same page and to see if she could move on to the next topic. The quiz was more of a traditional assessment. I did some bias in the quiz assessment. She decided to do the quiz online through canvas. Each student is suppose to have a chrome book to enter canvas, but some students were not allowed a chrome book or had some computer difficulties. Other students did not know how to work the system and were unfamiliar with the computers.
 The validity of the quiz was also questionable since some of the students were not able to complete the homework and did not understand the methods used to complete the homework. This does not reflect how well they understood the subject. She did improve the reliability of the traditional assessment by allowing the students to be able to take the quiz again after class if they did not feel like they did well enough on it.
I did not get a chance to see if there were patterns in the grading. I will ask what she does with the outliers and how she was going to help those who needed help. The assessment was criterion-referenced because the quiz gave them a percentage of how they did.

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