Assessment

What is a formative assessment?

• A resource to evaluate student learning

• A resource used to monitor student learning

• An assessment given formally

• An assessment which is always given a grade

Instructional objectives are also known as behavioral objectives?

• True

• False

Feedback needs to be given to students immediately.

• True

• False

Backward Planning:

Identify the order of steps

• · Broad Objectives

  · Objectives for large Units

  ·Specific Instructional/Behavioral Objectives

• · Specific Instructional/Behavioral ObjectivesParents  

  · Broad Objectives

  ·  Objectives for large Units

      

• ·      Objectives for large Units

  · Specific Instructional/Behavioral Objectives

  ·Broad Objectives

What are summative assessments used to determine?

• Instructional methods and student feedback

• if students have mastered specific competencies

• Valid instruction

Formative assessments provide information needed to adjust teaching after you teach the unit.

• True

• False

These assessments are aimed at assessing the extent to which the most important outcomes at the end of the instruction have been reached. But it measures more: the effectiveness of learning, reactions on the instruction and the benefits on a long-term base. The long-term benefits can be determined by following students who attend your course, or test. You are able to see whether and how they use the learned knowledge, skills and attitudes.

• Performance Assessment

• Criterion-referenced assessment

• Authentic Assessments

• Summative assessment

• Confirmative assessment

What happens when objectives are not aligned with instructions and assessment?

• Nothing Happens

• They are motivated to do their best.

• It undermines student motivation and learning.

What is Bloom’s Taxonomy for?

• Classifying verbs and restricting learning activities to decide how to teach

• Classifying purposes of verbs to decide on teaching activities

• Classifying learning objectives in terms of different level of thinking

• None of the Above

In Bloom’s Taxonomy - knowledge is a lower-level skill?

• True

• False