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Assessment at its best, indicates how a student thinks, learns, understands, and communicates their knowledge of a given subject. These can be used to inform instruction that caters effectively to the strengths, learning styles, and specific needs of the student.
Ideally, assessment looks at process in addition to product.
However, assessments we use in schools rarely capture the whole picture or the whole story, and so they need to be taken with a grain (or maybe many grains) of salt.

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Assessment is a way to set preventative measures to avoid learning gaps and to see student growth. I love that Wilson decided not to use rubrics allowing to view the student as human rather than robotic.

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Assement is a tool meant to provide data for teachers to build an understanding of what the students' needs are. It is a tool that teachers can use to gauage students' learning and adjust thier lessons to students' needs. Depending upon the assessments determine the accuracy of the data.

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Assessment is a tool to improve instruction, see what skills the student has, and use the information to help them grow.

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Assessment is a way to check for understanding-- to see what knowledge students are bringing into a classroom and what they might have taken away from instruction.

It is not a means for us to label and confirm our deficit ways at looking at students.

-Christina

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Assessment is a process of showing evidence for student learning. It is supposed to help educators design their instruction and meet the needs of the individual learners in the class. It is, according to NCTE supposed to come from a place of inquiry and equity. Yet, lately I am growing more and more frustrated by seeing, for example, STAR testing in action. Especially when thinking about children I am working with in intervention, who are curious, and are working extremely hard, yet show that they have "negative" improvement based on narrow testing measures. I am seeing more and more children being hurt rather than helped by the assessment in place at their schools.

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I think of assessment as a way to better understand students, including identifying their strengths and challenges. This is in order to both tailor educators' instruction to better meet student needs and empower their strengths, as well as allow students to present how much they have learned and grown.

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Assessment is a tool used to measure students knowledge on a specific topic. However, assessment validity is dependant upon the type of assessment. Informal assessments are more authentic and students ability is better measured through these forms. As a student I did not like assessments at all and was a terrible test taker. As a teacher I understand why they are important but I also understand that there are different ways of implementation.

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Assessment is a way of discovering what our students know, how they feel, how they are thinking to design instruction
It is for the learner's benefit
Assessment is not a way to create a hierarchy or instill power

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Assessment is a means to figuring out where students are at in their learning. This can be done through multiple formats - differentiation! Allows for teachers to adjust their teaching and instruction accordingly.

What assessment is not - measuring the ability of a student! Does not give us the full and complete picture of the student.

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When I was a student, assessments are nightmare for me, because we have an college entrance exam (Gaokao), and all we were doing at school are exercise books and test-skill development for preparing this test.

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As I read through chapter 7 of Wiggins, I jotted down some of the words used in the chapter as well as some of the words that popped into my head while I was reading. Here is my list:

Accessible, transferable, realistic/authentic, targeted, variety, open ended

Looking back on this list I realize that not all assessments can be all of these things all of the time, but it's certainly possible to incorporate them with regularity.

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The emotions I associate with assessment = stress, anxiety, fear, confusion.
Assessment is a social practice - it can  be a way to check for understanding, for students and teachers to learn from each other. Would like to bring in creativity

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I think assessment is the way for me to know what my students know and understand. This can be from before I taught, during my lessons or after. I can use this information to adjust what I'm teaching so that I can help them with areas where they struggle or move on, if they all understand. Often I feel like assessment is all that we are teaching towards, but standard assessments I feel are not useful and don't tell us what we really need to know.

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I think assessment is the way for me to know what my students know and understand. This can be from before I taught, during my lessons or after. I can use this information to adjust what I'm teaching so that I can help them with areas where they struggle or move on, if they all understand. Often I feel like assessment is all that we are teaching towards, but standard assessments I feel are not useful and don't tell us what we really need to know.

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Assessment - a way to evaluate what students understand from instruction.

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Assessment - a way to evaluate what students understand from instruction.

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It is an ongoing process for improvement

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Assessments should be as beneficial to students as they are to teachers. They should be used to understand what students know, don't know, and to inform future instruction. It shouldn't be used to just "give a grade" on an assignment.

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Assessment is a means of finding out where students are with material. It can help inform where teachers need to differentiate instruction to meet needs of students. I have had various interactions with assessment most of which have involved anxiety. - JG

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Assessment is a means of finding out where students are with material. It can help inform where teachers need to differentiate instruction to meet needs of students. I have had various interactions with assessment most of which have involved anxiety. - JG

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Assessment is a tool used to check for student comprehension and to alter instruction accordingly

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Assessment is a way of determining what students know, understand, and are thinking so that teachers can adjust their instruction and materials

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Assessment-a way to improve and adapt my instruction, opportunities for reflection

Assessment methods can look different for students; matching their needs to how they are being assessed

As the student, assessments can be seen as a way to learn about oneself, grow as a thinker