Reading Reflection 9

1. Description of a method of understanding prior-knowledge of students.

Teachers need to use a variety of assessments instead of just a generic short answer or multiple-choice test. Some of these can include criterion-referenced assessments, alternative assessments and performance assessments, which produces comprehensive, credible, and dependable information. “Your choice of which tool is most appropriate will require you to think about your purpose for assessment. Consider not only what you want to measure, but how will you use assessment to improve student learning.”

2. Discussion on the importance of establishing anchors for a project.

When a teacher establishes “anchors” they get a sense of where students are starting from on a certain subject and how far are they going as they work to meet learning goals. This is important because you need to know if there is facts that certain students need to know before they start their project, or they will be completely lost.

3. Description of several ways to assess what students learned during the project.

There is always the standard assessments like multiple choices tests, short answer, and essays, but you could also have the students create something. For example, they could create a video explaining what happened, or they could make a puppet show, really if you give them free rain over the idea, students will come up with creative ways to demonstrate what they learned.

4. Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project.

In our unit plans, the final project is taking an accumulation of everything the students have learned and presenting it to the public. Therefore, that would be our assessment.