1 / 11

Assessment: An Overview

Assessment: An Overview. What assessment is . . . and what assessment is not . Assessment: An Overview. Assessment is defined as:

saul
Download Presentation

Assessment: An Overview

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Assessment: An Overview What assessment is . . . and what assessment is not.

  2. Assessment: An Overview Assessment is defined as: “. . . a method of evaluating personality in which an individual, living in a group under partly controlled physical and social conditions, meets and solves a variety of lifelike problems, including stress problems, and is observed and rated.”

  3. Assessment: An Overview Also – “The interpretive integration of application tasks (procedures) to collect objective-relevant information for educational decision making and communication about the impact of the teaching-learning process.”

  4. Assessment: An Overview Measurement + Evaluation Assessment

  5. Assessment: An Overview • Purpose of Assessment • Certify student learning • Feedback • Planning for instruction • Diagnostics • Summative & Formative evaluation • Prediction • Motivation • Research

  6. Assessment: An Overview • Uses for Assessment: • Selecting, appraising, and clarifying instructional objectives • Developing and reporting student achievement • Planning & improving learning experiences • Evaluating accountability • Counseling • Selecting students for special programs

  7. Assessment: An Overview Eight Trends in Assessment • Standards-based education (SBE) • Requirement(s): • Clear identification of learning goals/objectives • Performance standards for each goal • High standards for performance • Applicable to all students • Public reporting

  8. Assessment: An Overview • Accountability • Legal Activism • Concerns for Fairness • Item Response Theory • Performance Assessment • State, National, & International Testing • Computerization • Processing test data • Reporting test scores • Test administration

  9. Assessment: An Overview • What is the purpose of assessment? • Positive & negative aspects of assessment to be considered. • What direction do you see assessment going? • What major issues need to be addressed regarding assessment over the next 5? • Other issues, comments, concerns.

  10. Assessment: An Overview Assessment drives instruction. How does measurement, testing, and evaluation fit into this statement?

  11. Assessment: An Overview

More Related