Friday, April 19, 2013
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Chapter 1 : Assessment Concepts and Issues
The difference between assessment and testing would be that an assessment can tell you if a child understands how they can apply information and a test mainly measures knowledge which is often memorized. Assessment results are often used to help students improve particular aspects of themselves. Tests results are often used for grades or to measure knowledge that was either taught or already memorized.
Assessments can be formal or informal. An example of a formal assessment would be the LAS Links assessment given at the beginning of the year. Informal assessment examples would be writing certain comments on a student paper like ,"Great job!" on student work with no mistakes. At the beginning of each school year our school must give each of our ESL students the LAS Links Assessment. This assessment allows us to find out if an ESL may need services from our program or not. Through the year all of my students must take tests in Reading, Language, Science, Health, PE, and Social Studies. It is from these tests that we measure if there is retention of information taught on.
Assessments can be formal or informal. An example of a formal assessment would be the LAS Links assessment given at the beginning of the year. Informal assessment examples would be writing certain comments on a student paper like ,"Great job!" on student work with no mistakes. At the beginning of each school year our school must give each of our ESL students the LAS Links Assessment. This assessment allows us to find out if an ESL may need services from our program or not. Through the year all of my students must take tests in Reading, Language, Science, Health, PE, and Social Studies. It is from these tests that we measure if there is retention of information taught on.
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