Jenny Anne Dayrit
ED 450 FA 2012
October 15, 2012
Assessment Questions
Teacher Name: Elaine Cabrera
School: Dan Dan Elementary School
How do you assess your students with special needs?
You have to
accommodate their assessment like their lesson plans. Either you have to have more pictures, cut
and paste, or oral. Whichever way the
student is able to answer, that is the way that you assess them.
How do you know
your assessments are effective?
Assessments are
effective if the child understands what to do.
If the assessment aligns to what you are teaching, your assessment
should reflect what they learned in their lessons, not something that you
haven’t taught or covered.
As a teacher in
training, what do I need to know about assessment?
I need to know
the different types of assessments, from the questions to performance tasks and
open ended questions. It is good to know
the purpose of the pre-test, and that quizzes help to show understanding during
the learning process.
What are several
ways you assess your students?
Not all
assessment has to do with tests. There
are graphic organizers, performance tasks, and checklists and rubrics. Even orally, one on one, or in a small group,
students can be assessed with the type of answers that they have or give.
What is the
purpose of assessing students?
The purpose of
assessing students is to measure their learning. Assessments also help us to guide our
teaching. They can also let us know if the
lesson is not effective, or how much time to spend on each benchmark,
standards.
What is the
difference between Common Core and CNMI Standards and Benchmarks?
The difference
is that Common Core is rigorous and relevant.
There is more of an in depth mastery for Common Core. Also, there is a
vertical and horizontal alignment across grade levels in the Common Core. This means that basic skills should be
learned and mastered in kindergarten.
What do you do
with the results of your assessments?
With assessments
results, you can plan your lessons accordingly.
You can group your students into the different tiers. You know who needs more help, is getting the
right amount of help, and who needs advance work.
What are your
most effective assessments and why?
Assessments that
involve applying knowledge that they learned seems to work better. When giving a paper based assessment after a
performance assessment, students tend to do better. When students have the knowledge, they need
to use it in order for them to learn better.
This helps because they are applying their knowledge and not just
memorizing it for storage.
Why is
assessment important?
Assessment is
important because it helps us to see what the students have learned, need to
learn, and the rate at which they learn.
Assessment gives us actual data and not just theories on what works or
doesn’t work. We use assessment to
measure ourselves against the world to see if the students are ready to become
productive citizens.
How do students
receive feedback?
Students can
receive feedback in many different ways.
They can get a written formal feedback like in a progress report or
report card. They can receive feedback
on rubrics, self assessments, checklists, applause, comments or praise. Feedback can be immediate or can be given at
the right time. There are other
feedbacks such as behavior or star charts, and also awards.
What are the
diagnostic assessments that your school has/use? Summative?
Our school uses
RFA or RDA, Reading First Assessment or Reading Diagnostic Assessments, that
looks at the different skills that students need in the lower grade in order to
read. Teachers also use BRI, or Basic
Reading Inventory, to look at the comprehension of their students reading. PSS as a whole uses STAR Reading and STAR
Math to determine each child’s math or reading level. This is a timed test that the students use on
the computer, and is diagnostic, formative, and summative. Also, the school uses Accelerated Reading to
increase reading time and comprehension.
Each grade level should be making a pre and or post test for each
standard and benchmark. The students
also participate in the SAT-10 testing (federal), and the state testing called
Standards Based Assessment (from grade 3-12).
Of course, there are many different assessments at the class level that
students need to take.
