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Assessing and Reporting Student Achievement

Assessing and Reporting Student Achievement. Chapter 7. Why do we assess?. To assist in student learning Identify student strengths/weaknesses Diagnostic assessment To assess effectiveness of instruction To provide data for decision making. What’s the difference?.

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Assessing and Reporting Student Achievement

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  1. Assessing and Reporting Student Achievement Chapter 7

  2. Why do we assess? • To assist in student learning • Identify student strengths/weaknesses • Diagnostic assessment • To assess effectiveness of instruction • To provide data for decision making

  3. What’s the difference? • Test – a tool that judges a small amount of data at a given moment in time. • Assessment – relative neutral process of finding out what student are learning. • Evaluation – more subjective, determining the result of the assessment. • Used interchangeably

  4. Measurement and Assessment • Measurement refers to quantifiable data about specific behaviors. • Blood pressure • Heart rate • Test grades • Validity – measures what it was intended to measure • Reliability – accuracy with which a measure consistently gauges that which it is intended to gauge.

  5. Three phrases to know • Diagnostic assessment – pre-assessment • Formative assessment – learning during instruction • Summative assessment – learning after the instruction

  6. Know the difference • Criterion referenced tests • CRCT • EOCT • GHSGT • Teacher-made tests • Norm referenced tests • ITBS • SAT • GRE

  7. Know the difference • Rubric • P. 283, 284 • Checklist • P.265, p.266

  8. Writing Tests • A PowerPoint has been loaded onto the web site about this.

  9. How to Raise Test Scores • A PowerPoint has been loaded onto the web site to address this. • Check here on how to relieve test stress.

  10. Reporting Student Work • Report cards changing • PowerSchool • Parent-Teacher Conference

  11. Dealing with Angry Parents • Stay calm • Have paper work • When assignments were made • How they were shared – written instructions • How progress was noted • How grades determined • Do not become intimidated. • Foul language ends the conversation • Do NOT talk about other students – FERPA! • Do NOT talk about your being over worked, having personal problems, etc.

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