EDP 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Common Core State Standards Initiative, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
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Helped with state standards and national standards: common core. Standards stay the same but the way you frame the. Start goals broad then to specify to see if students are achieving the goals. Behavioral: looks specifically at doing specific behaviors that tell me they reached the objective. A loose hierarchy of educational objectives that range from simply to complex thinking. Assessment: an integrated process of gaining information about students" learning and making value judgments about their progress. Evaluation: the process of making judgments about the assessment information. Formative assessment: takes place during the course of instruction by providing information that teachers can use to revise their teaching and students can use to improve their learning. Informal assessment: spontaneous unsystematic observations of students" behaviors. Formal assessment: involving pre-planned, systematic gathering of data. Summative assessment: administered after the instruction is completed. Step 1: having clear instructional goals and communicating them to students. Step 3: using assessment to enhance motivation and confidence.