(14.1) Think of a lesson plan from your
licensure area (feel free to use the same topic you used for Chapter 6, 9 &
10). Knowing that assessment is an integral part of teaching, explain at least
four informal and formal assessments that you will use in your lesson plan to
provide you with feedback and involve the students in assessing their own
learning.
I believe that both informal and formal assessments can be
very telling of students’ progress. I believe I would use 3 or 4 different
informal assessments for my own knowledge of how we are doing as a class, and
perhaps what I can be teaching more clearly and effectively. I thought my
example could be of a lesson plan in the fifth grade (since that is a grade I
am interested in teaching) with the subject social studies (since it is my favorite).
If I were using a topic such as the founding fathers, I would create a portfolio
project as the final, formal assessment. Since there are a limited amount of
founding fathers, more than one student would be assigned the same man.
Informal: Students must write a 25 word abstract on the
founding father they have researched and then place in their portfolio
Informal: Students with the same topic must pair up and
verbally share the most important facts (I check for accurate information)
Informal: Students will create questions for peers to answer
about their founding father
Informal: After discussing the making of America and how
these men the creation of a republic, we will have Q &A time
Formal: I will give students an essay question for a grade
and it will go in there completed portfolio
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I think there can be positives and
negatives to both criterion-referenced assessments as well as norm-reference
assessments. Criterion reference allows teachers to see what their students and
what they do not. This can be extremely helpful and understanding which
concepts they may be completely grasping, somewhat grasping, or not
understanding in the least. In this way, teachers can recreate and redraw lesson
plans to more accurately get their point across.
As
for the norm-referenced assessments, students are compared to other students.
This may be across the county, state, or nation. If these tests are
administered state-wide, it is likely that there is information that is not in
the state curriculum, and that the state probably did not feel it was that
important for their students to learn. I see this as a negative when time could
be better spent learning valuable skills. A positive for norm-referenced assessments
is that it could create healthy competition for schools to compete against each
other like “battle of the nerds.” They also use a lot of percentile ranking so
schools can see specifically where they are and how much they need to approve.
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