Education… High-Stakes at Risk 12 Mar 201721 Jan 2021 What are high-stakes assessments? Tests are referred to as “high stakes” when significant consequences are tied to the performance of students on the test (Vanderbilt University, 2016). A high-stakes test is…
Web-Notes and Resources TA and AA 4 Mar 20174 Mar 2017 Mueller, J. (2016). What is Authentic Assessment? Retrieved March 4, 2017 from http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/whatisit.htm
Education… To form? or to sum it up? 28 Feb 201712 Mar 2017 When I started teaching some 5 years ago, I was not much familiar with the different methods and strategies used in assessing students. I only know quizzes, unit tests, quarterly…
Education… Types of Assessments 26 Feb 2017 Formal assessments have data which support the conclusions made from the test standardized measures data is mathematically computed and summarized Ex: scores such as percentiles, stanines, or standard scores are…
Education Quizzing with QUIZLET 22 Feb 201712 Mar 2017 Scientific terms seemed complicated and difficult to memorize and my class hours cannot be spent too much on studying these. I made various strategies to teach vocabularies in my Science…
Uncategorized Self and Peer Assessment 3 Feb 201712 Mar 2017 When is it useful to do peer or self-assessment? when doing formative and summative assessments, early and during the course of learning What benefits are gained from doing peer or…
Education… Why Assess? 28 Jan 2017 Exams, quizzes, oral recitations, return-demonstrations, laboratories, tournaments and plays-these are the types of assessment I grew up with. I can consider myself as a student and not as a learner back…
Education… Bloom’s Taxonomy 28 Jan 201728 Jan 2017 http://ar.cetl.hku.hk/images/blooms.gif Image Source: http://ar.cetl.hku.hk/images/blooms.gif http://www.teachthought.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/blooms-revised-taxonomy-tree.jpg Image Source: http://www.teachthought.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/blooms-revised-taxonomy-tree.jpg
Education… Purposes of Assessment 28 Jan 201728 Jan 2017 Link to the Webcast on “Rethinking classroom assessment with purpose in mind” by Dr. Earl. (http://www.curriculum.org/k-12/en/projects/rethinking-classroom-assessment-with-purpose-in-mind) http://www.curriculum.org/k-12/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/CSC060-13_RethinkingClassroomAssessmentwithPurposeinMind-MAIN.png Image Source: http://www.curriculum.org/k-12/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/CSC060-13_RethinkingClassroomAssessmentwithPurposeinMind-MAIN.png Purposes of Assessment: Assessment for Learning, Assessment of Learning and…
Education… Detective WHO? 20 Jan 201720 Jan 2017 http://www.libricon.com/DataManagement/Uploads/25/detective_agency-invistigator-Chennai-Mumbai-Pune-Bangalore-Goa-Chandigarh-Dubai.jpg Detectives search for clues and evidences to solve crimes and bring justice to commission of illegal and unlawful offenses. They try to find evidences to puzzle out mind-boggling incidents…
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