Joe Booker

                 There are many differences between formative and summative assessment. Formative assessment occurs before or during instruction to see if students know that material they are about to learn or to see the progress of learning. When summative happens after instruction seeing if the student comprehended the material. Formative assessment is usually ungraded because students cannot be expected to be graded on something they do not know. When in summative assessment they are graded because it is how the teacher knows if the students retained the information they were taught. In formative assessment it helps the instruction by showing the teachers what they need to teach and what the children already know. In summative assessment it summarizes what the children were supposed to be learning throughout the lessons.  When I am a teacher I will make sure my students comprehend the material by using both formative and summative assessment. I will grade them on the quality of an oral presentation which will be a summative assesment. This presentation will be on the topics they did not comprehend during the formative assessment which was not graded. By making the children do a presentation on the material they did not comprehend it will force them to learn the information they present and also give me an opportunity to grade the children.

standardize tests

Joe Booker

                I feel that standardized testing puts more pressure on the teachers and students then is necessary. Standardize test are making teachers teach to the standardize test and not teaching for students to learn. The importance of school is to educate the children, they are the future of our world; these kids need knowledge not testing. My school prepared me for my standardized tests by getting ready for the standardize test the whole year so we were ready when we took it at the end of the year. This prepared us for the test but did it prepare us for life? These tests are taking away from the quality of our education.  If I had the ways and the means to I would get rid of standardize testing. Who cares what school does better than the others or what children are smarter than others if all the children are getting a quality education that’s all that matters. Quality education makes quality people, making the world a better place.  This should be the focus of education and this is how I plan to make education in the future.

Rubrics

Joe Booker

Chandler

Assessment case study

5/5/14

 

In Miss Wren's rubric that she is developing, she needs to remember that it needs to be valid, reliable, and absent of bias. The rubric must apply to each and every students oral book reports. A confidence interval will make use of the standard error of measurement which will allow Miss Wren to consider the range of scores that might include the student’s true score. To find the students confidence interval the score must be supported by evidence in the book report not just how she feels about the particular presentation. The absence of bias will give all the students a fair assessment making it the closest to the person’s true score. A way that Miss Wren can in cooperate an extrinsic reinforcement would be if the students receive an "A" on their book reports will not have to take the test on the book and the students who fail to receive an "A" will have to take a test on the book.