1. Bellwork
• What is the difference between
Assessment and Testing?
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2. Chapter 1:
Why Do Teachers Need to
Know about Assessment
Jordan Jucutan
Danica Jucutan
ED 450
September 10, 2012
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3. Student Learning Objectives
• I can..
– Differentiate Assessment and Testing
– Distinguish traditional reasons
versus today’s reasons for teachers
to know about assessment
– Recognize what classroom teachers
need to know about assessment
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4. Norms
• Come to class prepared and ready to
learn
• Cellphones on vibrate or silent
• Everyone deserves respect
• Do your best and have fun
LEARNING!
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5. Warm-Up Activity
• On a small sheet of paper/index
card…
1. Write a question about ASSESSMENT
2. On the other side of the paper, write
your own answer
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6. Federal Laws Rule
• No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
• Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
– The goal of the Act was for the government to supply aid for
underprivileged children in schools in order to improve the
performance of these students and elevate them to the same
level that the more privileged students were achieving at the
time
• Improving America’s Schools Act (IASA)
– Reauthorized the ESEA and began making efforts to analyze
student scores but had no real consequences for schools that
were performing poorly
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7. Assessment vs Testing
• Assessment
– Educational assessment is a formal
attempt to determine students’ status with
respect to educational variables of interest
• Test
– Example:
• Essay Test, multiple choice tests, and true false tests.
– Once a teacher says “Test” Automatically
students would think paper and pencil!
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8. Activity 1
1. Count off…1-5
2. Find your group
3. Listen to the instructions…..
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9. Yesteryears
• Diagnosing strength and weakness
– Pre-assessment: assessment that takes place
prior to the teacher’s initiation of instruction
• Monitoring students’ progress
– Formative: it is the use of assessment-elicited
evidence intended to improve unsuccessful yet
still modifiable instruction
– Summative: refers to the use of test whose
purpose is to make a final success/failure
decision about relatively unmodifiable set of
instructional activities
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10. Cont…
• Assigning grades
– Best way to assign grades is to collect
evidence of a student’s accomplishments
• Determine instructional effectiveness
– Student’s tests performances can help
teachers infer how effective their teaching has
been
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11. Today
• Test results determine public perceptions of
educational effectiveness
• Students’ assessment performances are
increasingly seen as part of the teacher
evaluation process
• As clarifies of instructional
intentions, assessment devices can improve
instructional quality
– High-stake test is an assessment for which important
consequences ride on the test’s results
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12. What do teachers need to
know about assessment?
1. Constructing your own assessment instrument
2. Using assessment instruments constructed by
others
3. Planning instruction based on instructionally
illuminating assessments
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13. Assessment
Continuum voting
1. Educational assessment is a formal attempt to
determine student’s status with respect to
educational variable to interest
2. Assigning grades is “today’s” reason why
teachers assess
3. Determining instructional effectiveness is a
traditional reason that teacher’s assess
students
4. Assessment is a fashionable word for testing
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14. Did We?
• Differentiate Assessment and Testing
• Distinguish traditional reasons versus
today’s reasons for teachers to know
about assessment
• Recognize what classroom teachers need
to know about assessment
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15. Resources
• Popham , James W. Classroom Assessment What
Teachers Need to Know . 6th ed. Boston, MA:
Pearson Education, Inc., 2011. 1-22. Print.
• http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/337/no-child-left-
behind-a-failing-attempt-at-reform
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