Assessments

        Assessing students is important for students and teachers. My definition of assessing would be
different ways to test students’ knowledge by collecting data and analyzing it to see if they understand or if they do not. Also, to see if you need to change your teaching or not.
It allows students, parents, and teachers to see if they understood a topic taught. It also shows if teachers are teaching in a way that the class understands. There are so many different ways teachers can assess students besides just multiple choice test.
        There are three different types of assessments which include, diagnostic, summative, and formative. Diagnostic is a Pre-Assessment. Teachers use different tools to find out the prior knowledge of the students on a specific topic. Teachers can assess diagnostically by using: KWL charts, brainstorming, graphing, inventories, checklists, observation, self-evaluation, and questioning, etc. The purpose of a summative assessment is to ascertain how much has been learned or how well the test taker performs. They also tell the student and the teacher where the student is with respect to a comparison group or whether a specific skill or content area has been mastered. Different types of summative assessments include: unit test, standardized test, and formal test etc. Formative assessments provide information for further learning. They need to provide a finer picture of what the student does and does not understand or do correctly so that future learning can work on areas of difficulty. Some examples of formative assessments are: conferences, peer evaluation, 3 minute pause, observation, exit cards, quiz, journal entries, self-evaluations, talk around, etc.
         Each type of assessment is used at a different time while teaching a topic. There are so many different ways to assess as well. This is good because it makes students feel like they are not actually being tested all the time. It is also good for teachers because it allows teachers to see if they need to change their teaching methods or not. I would like to think of assessing more of a monitoring and evaluation rather than testing.

This is my graphic organizer on assessments:

This a link to the quiz I made up on assessments.