Effective Assessment
Testing students is not as easy as it may seem. Teachers must come up with authentic methods for assessing students.Using formal assessment to measure student knowledge can come at several different points during unit plan. Assessments preformed before a unit, while we are teaching the unit and after we are finished teaching the unit are all valid and helpful to a teacher, yet each serve different purposes. Understanding each assessment type is important to helping teachers fine tune their teaching skills.
Hi Gordon - Yes, students really need the frequent assessmsnt to give them (and us!) the feedback that they need. Susan
I was taught in the military to use testing to see two things. Is the information being put out to where it can be understood and learned and are most of the students capable of learning the subject matter ( prior experiences to have a proper foundation for new learning, etc )
It also shows the student where they need to do more self study or maybe get tutoring.
