ED450: Assessment & Evaluation Oleai
elementary school
Fall 2012 3rd grad, Mrs. Maria Ano
Ms. Soledad Camacho
HeJin Lee
1. How do you assess your students with special
needs?
Before assessing students with special
needs, I must first become very familiar with the student’s IEP. By doing so, I will be able to identify the
type of accommodations needed for that student and I will be able to also
modify the instruction to suit the learning needs of that student.
2. How do you know your assessments are
effective?
I know that the assessments I use are
effective through evidences of student learning. When a student can perform a task with none
to very minimal difficulty, and perform with independence, I can say that both
the instruction and assessments were effective.
3. What are several ways you assess your
students?
I assess students in various ways depending
on the activity and the outcome that I expect.
I conduct both formal and informal assessments, formative, summative and
diagnostic assessments that can either be performed orally or written. My assessments also vary on how it is done;
either individually, small group, or whole group.
4. What is the purpose of assessing
students?
Assessments should be used to help teachers
tailor their instruction to meet the needs of all learners. They are to be used not just to provide
feedback to the students but more effectively as a way for teachers to reflect
on the effectiveness of the lesson.
Assessments can also be used by the entire school to create action plans
that will enable everyone to help students succeed.
5. How do you assess students who do not
want to participate?
I believe that a firm and consistent classroom
management will help teachers when faced with scenarios such as students not
wanting to participate. In my classroom,
I make sure that my expectations were communicated clearly to my students and
their parents from the get go. That way,
when I am faced with this kind of issue/concern, my students know that not
wanting to participate in anything that goes on in the classroom will result in
consequences that will affect the reporting of their performance to their
parents.
6. What are your most effective assessments
and why?
Any form of assessment can be effective; it
all depends on how consistent it is and the purpose behind the assessment. If a teacher is consistent in giving
assessments and providing immediate feedback to the students, then the assessment
will become effective. The purpose of
assessments should always be to help teachers tailor their instruction and help
them gear their students to success.
7. Do you assess your students based on
their learning styles? How?
Yes.
It is important to consider the students’ learning styles and
incorporate them into the assessments used in the classroom. In my assessments, I try to incorporate some
of the intelligences to provide students with an outlet to reaching their
needs.
8. Why is assessment important?
Assessment is important because it helps a
teacher become more effective in reaching all learners in the classroom. It serves as an important reflection tool as
well so that teachers may reflect at the end of a lesson to consider if needs
were met or not. It also serves as a way
to provide feedback to students so that they too become responsible for their
learning as well.
9. Do you provide a rubric for each
activity/assessment that your students do? Why? or Why not?
Yes.
It is equally important to have rubrics because it serves both the
teacher and student. Having a rubric
provides students with a guide to follow and teaches them to become responsible
and accountable for their learning. It
also teaches students to be independent rather than always having to depend on
their teacher all the time.
10. How do students receive feedback?
Just like assessments, feedback can come in
many forms. It can be given formally and
informally as well. What is most
important is that feedback be always given as immediately as possible to the
students. Immediate response helps
teachers maintain an effective communication with the students and parents as
well. Giving feedback immediately also
allows the students to be responsible for their learning and to catch any
learning concerns/difficulties at the earliest stage possible.
