Assessing Student Learning- How to Measure Progress and Understanding

Assessing Student Learning- How to Measure Progress and Understanding

How will you know if children have learned what you planned to teach them?

Assessments are integral for teachers to evaluate the impact of their teaching. Teachers can embrace various assessment models to ensure effective learning. Observation is the simplest assessment model, and it involves analyzing learning improvements through the child’s communication and behavioral changes. Further, teachers can derive responses from the learners to ascertain the impact of the lessons. Responses are either close-ended or open-ended (Seefeldt et al., 2014). Deriving close-ended responses involves using selected and constructed responses such as multiple choices, matching, short answers, essays, or fill-in-the-blank questions. On the other hand, open-ended responses involve using authentic and performance-based assessments such as problem-solving tasks, projects, presentations, or demonstrations. Additionally, teachers can use informal interviews to assess learning progress during their interactions with learners. The informal interviews seek to evaluate the responses’ consistency, accuracy, fullness, clarity, and extensiveness. Teachers can also use portfolios that record the learners’ progress over time. The portfolios are created using responses and work samples collected over the learning period.

Principles of Effective Assessment

Discuss the principles of effective assessment. Why is each important?

Effective assessments should uphold crucial principles such as matching the learning objectives, being appropriate for the learner’s development, visible documentation, adopting multiple measures, clear scoring procedures, evaluating multiple intelligences, and unbiased and enhanced learning and teaching (Seefeldt et al., 2014). Each assessment principle is critical in enabling teachers to develop viable teaching processes, improve the learner’s cognition, and evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum and education policies.

What are the implications for making assessment decisions?

The implications of making assessment decisions involve understanding the essence of the assessments, measuring the skills acquired in the learning process, collecting feedback on the teaching programs’ shortcomings, and creating opportunities to enhance the learning experience.

What are the variety of ways you might assess a kindergarten standard such as “The student will describe everyday life in the present and in the past and begin to recognize that things change over time” ( Virginia Standards of Learning, 2012 ).

Consistently, assessing kindergarten standards requires various assessment methods, such as observation, which enables the teacher to evaluate the cognitive and behavioral development that enables the learners to discern the changes between the past and the present. In addition, the teacher can structure performance tasks that illustrate learning development or create checklists to document behavioral changes.

Reference

Seefeldt, C., Castle, S., & Falconer, R. C. (2014). Social studies for the preschool/primary child (9th ed.). Pearson.

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Professor Instructions:

Answer the last bulleted Question (How will you know if children have learned what you planned to teach them?) on pg. 26 after reading the Assessment section 2 pgs, 57-65

Assessing Student Learning- How to Measure Progress and Understanding

Answer #8 under Discussion questions is on pg. 66.

TEXTBOOK: Required texts for this course: Seefeldt, C., Castle, S. and Falconer, R. (2014). Social studies for the pre-school and/or primary child. (9^th Ed.) New York: Merrill

YOU’RE GOING TO READ CHAPTER 2 THE ASSESSMENT SECTION PAGES 57-65 AND AFTER READING THE CHAPTER YOU’RE GOING TO ANSWER THE LAST BULLETED QUESTIONS ON PAGE 26 YOU’RE ALSO GOING TO ANSWER #8 UNDER DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ON PAGE 66 THE TEXTBOOK IS LISTED ABOVE.