AEPA Professional Content (secondary) Quizzes &
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Assessments (def)
the process of collecting, quantifying, and qualifying student performance.
Assessments (prac)
Teachers use assessments as checkpoints for understnading, to see if there are roadblocks to
success, and to give students an opportunity to see where they feel comfortable and where they
are still lacking understanding.
Formative (assessments)
They are merely checkpoints along the way to test for understanding.
Summative (assessments)
Are cumulative, and often more formal.
Formative Assessments (ex.)
-self-reflections
-pre-tests
-concept maps/graphic organizers
-drafts
-classroom work
-homework
-informal surveys
,Summative Assessments (ex.)
-quizzes and tests
-running records for assessing early readers
-state tests
-projects
-papers
Portfolio Assessment
Is a collection of student work. Portfolios show growth over a long period of time. [encourages
critical thinking, analysis, evaluation]
Open-ended Assessment
Require students to explain their answer, and often is more than one answer. [encourages critical
thinking, analysis, evaluation]
Norm-Referenced Test pt.1
Measures a test taker's performance against another peer's performance.
Norm-Referenced Test pt.2
Used to classify student learners for homogenous groupings based on ability levels or basic skills
into a ranking category.
Norm-Referenced Test pt.3
Provide information about how the local test takers did compared to a representative sampling of
national test takers.
, Criterion-Referenced Test
-Measures the performance of a child's skill acquisition. [Has the child learned what they set out
to learn?]
-Examines specific student learning goals and performance compared to a norm group of student
learners.
Performance Based Assessment
Found most commonly in standardized exams, and breaks the skill down into various levels of
proficiency.
[how well has the child learned the information]
Differentiated Instruction pt.1
Finding the instructional practice that matches your students' unique learning styles.
-when creating your instructional practices, it is important to refer to Bloom's Taxonomy.
Differentiated Instruction pt.2
-Content: the specifics to what is learned
-Process: the route to learning the content
-Product: the result of the learning
Keys:
-knowing what is essential in the curriculum
-knowing the needs of the students
Bloom's Taxonomy (intro)
Answers Solved 100% Correct.
Assessments (def)
the process of collecting, quantifying, and qualifying student performance.
Assessments (prac)
Teachers use assessments as checkpoints for understnading, to see if there are roadblocks to
success, and to give students an opportunity to see where they feel comfortable and where they
are still lacking understanding.
Formative (assessments)
They are merely checkpoints along the way to test for understanding.
Summative (assessments)
Are cumulative, and often more formal.
Formative Assessments (ex.)
-self-reflections
-pre-tests
-concept maps/graphic organizers
-drafts
-classroom work
-homework
-informal surveys
,Summative Assessments (ex.)
-quizzes and tests
-running records for assessing early readers
-state tests
-projects
-papers
Portfolio Assessment
Is a collection of student work. Portfolios show growth over a long period of time. [encourages
critical thinking, analysis, evaluation]
Open-ended Assessment
Require students to explain their answer, and often is more than one answer. [encourages critical
thinking, analysis, evaluation]
Norm-Referenced Test pt.1
Measures a test taker's performance against another peer's performance.
Norm-Referenced Test pt.2
Used to classify student learners for homogenous groupings based on ability levels or basic skills
into a ranking category.
Norm-Referenced Test pt.3
Provide information about how the local test takers did compared to a representative sampling of
national test takers.
, Criterion-Referenced Test
-Measures the performance of a child's skill acquisition. [Has the child learned what they set out
to learn?]
-Examines specific student learning goals and performance compared to a norm group of student
learners.
Performance Based Assessment
Found most commonly in standardized exams, and breaks the skill down into various levels of
proficiency.
[how well has the child learned the information]
Differentiated Instruction pt.1
Finding the instructional practice that matches your students' unique learning styles.
-when creating your instructional practices, it is important to refer to Bloom's Taxonomy.
Differentiated Instruction pt.2
-Content: the specifics to what is learned
-Process: the route to learning the content
-Product: the result of the learning
Keys:
-knowing what is essential in the curriculum
-knowing the needs of the students
Bloom's Taxonomy (intro)
