Demonstrate understanding of assessment strategies, including informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative approaches to assess student learning.
Assessment is known as a process to assess a student’s knowledge and understanding about what they have been taught at school. Black and William (1998) describe assessment as ‘the process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers to decide where learners are in their learning, where they need to go, and how best to get there.’ Reporting on the assessment of the student is also an important process for teachers, students and parents. It confirms where they are within the prescribed curriculum and shows the areas of strength, and those that need more work. This allows all parties to work together to obtain the mutual goal of bettering the students learning experience.
I have used a range of teaching strategies throughout my teaching journey such as:
Black, P., & Wiliam, D. (1998). Assessment and classroom learning. Assessment In Education, 5(1), 7--74.
I have used a range of teaching strategies throughout my teaching journey such as:
- A useful informal assessment strategy is the 'fist to five' method where the students are asked to show zero to five fingers to represent their understanding of the activity/instructions, less fingers mean a low understanding, whereas five fingers means they'd be confident teaching someone else.
- Formal assessment such as the use of pre and post tests for students to gauge their understanding of the topics that are to be/have been taught that week. Below is an example of a pretest I created for a grade 3/4/5/6 mixed class, it was important to assess the student's individual skills as it was such a diverse class.
Black, P., & Wiliam, D. (1998). Assessment and classroom learning. Assessment In Education, 5(1), 7--74.
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Money Pre-test created for grade 3/4/5/6 class