Assessing and Evaluating Students' Learning

Multiple Choice

The use of various tools in order to collect data on students' learning

• Evaluating

• Assessing

Open Ended

When you evaluate your students, you are judging their performance

based on what YOU value in their ability to understand and produce literature texts. Why? What does it depend on?

You have 2 minutes to answer!

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Evaluating: journal/blog responses, formal essay writings, and classroom discussions, among others, are some alternatives to what kind of tests?

Multiple Choice

When you provide students with "reader-based" feedback, you are describing the experience of being:

• Engaged and intrigued

• Having/not having too much information or description

• Both options are correct

• There's no correct option

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It has one advantage: students can self-assess their writing (against levels that are already specified).

At the same time, poorly designed, vague, or restrictive may compromise (spoil) thoughtful self-assessment or your assessment

It is a...

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Multiple Choice

Exit memos, journal entries, learning stories, and learning goals, among others are...

• Tests

• Exams

• Different techniques for determining what students learned

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It is a tool for evaluating students' growth and reflection, but first, you need to model the process for the students, using your own tool, with your reflections, and providing them with a specific set of criteria. What kind of performance-assessment tool is this?