CH. 11 Assessing Students

assessment that is meant to provide feedback about students' learning and understanding while learning is occurring, rather than after it is completed designed to guide teaching decisions and is normally not graded

• formative assessment

• summative assessment

• alternative assessment

• course evaluation

designed to evaluate students' learning after instruction has taken place which measures results, whether learning objectives have been met

• formative assessment

• summative assessment

• self-evaluation

• scorecard

experienced, skilled teachers paired with new teachers to help them improve their skills, solve problems and become comfortable in their new role

• mentor teacher

• supervising teacher

• student teacher

• veteran teacher

a method of assessing learning other than through testing

• formative assessment

• summative assessment

• alternative assessment

• scorecard assessment

a collection of student's work selected to show growth over a period of time, highlight skills and achievements, or show how well the student meets standards.

• student portfolio

• rubric

• validity

• summative assessment

a scoring tool that lists the criteria for judging a particular type of work describing levels of quality for each of the criteria and is often organized as a chart, with criteria on the left, followed by columns that describe different levels of quality for each characteristic

• student portfolio

• rubric

• checklist

• scorecard

a simple list of items to be noted, checked or remembered when evaluation learning

• rubric

• checklist

• self-evaluation

• scorecard

a tool for evaluating alternative assessments that lists the characteristics or factors to use when evaluation learning they typically identifying a maximum point value for each criterion but do not describe levels of quality

• rubric

• scorecard

• checklist

• self-evaluation

students' assessment of their own learning

• self-evaluation

• rubric

• scorecard

• checklist

a characteristic of assessments that actually measures the learning objectives.

• formative assessment

• validity

• reliability

• scorecard