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Chapter 11: Assessment Philosophy

Marissa Bradshaw

EDU 1010

April 9, 2018

Salt Lake Community College

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I plan to assess students in many different ways. You cannot base what someone knows

off of one type of test. Assessment is used, by teachers, to gather information about students

(Kauchak & Eggen, 2017). This helps teachers to see where their students are at in the learning

process; are they progressing, digressing, or stagnate. A lot of people tend to look at assessments

as a negative, including students. But if you take the time to do informal assessments, the

students might not catch on and will have a good time doing the assigned work.

As teachers we should be thinking about what type of assessments we will be giving as,

we write our lesson plans (Kauchak & Eggen, 2017). If you write an assessment after the lesson

has been given, you might forget what topics you went over in depth and which ones you

skimmed through. It would be unfair to test a student’s knowledge on something you did not

thoroughly cover. This is why creating your assessments along the way is an important technique

to practice.

Assessments are important for teachers and students. Teachers need to know what

information the students retain and what they still do not understand. The only way to find this

out is by planning to have assessments written into your daily schedule.

An informal assessment I will use in the classroom will be to call on students. Sometimes

students get off track, fall asleep, go to la la land, or just look plane confused. This will help me

as a teacher to see at what point they fell off the rail or if they are still on track with everyone

else participating in the lesson. I also have seen this ‘game’ where each student writes a question

on a piece of paper, they then crumple the paper and throw it. Every student ends up with a paper

and has to answer the question on the paper. This is like a fun pop quiz.
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A formal assessment I will use in my classroom will be to have students write an essay

about a certain thing we did in class. Explaining what they learned throughout the lessons.

Maybe have some other prompting questions like what was there favorite thing they learned and

why, how do you think it applies to the real world, and other things.

I will have tests and homework that students will be graded on. In elementary education

there is a lot more children need to learn other than just academics. I don’t know if you have ever

heard of the DOT but it is an assessment for preschool aged kids. It doesn’t just test academics it

also tests other developmental skills children should know at certain ages. I either want to find

something like that which, has already been created or make my own through researching and

what not.

You know students are learning by how you assess them. You won’t know if a student is

learning if you do not quiz them in one form or another. When you do assessments you are able

to see how your class is developing thinking and you can change your lesson plan according to

how the class is doing (Kauchak & Eggen, 2017).

One example of a formative assessment I will use is a venn diagram. Students will be

able to compare and contrast an item or a certain point we have been discussing in class. They

can then get into small groups and compare and contrast with each other. One example of a

summative assessment I will use is end of unit tests.

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References

Kauchak, D., & Eggen, P. (2017). In Introduction to Teaching Becoming a Professional (pp. 5-

19). Pearson.