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Assessment is for learning. It's an ongoing process where educators can get feedback.

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It is important for educators to acknowledge that assessments are not tests, but are ways for teachers to improve their teaching, which will help student achievement.

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Formative assessment encourages both student and teacher improvement.

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it's important for teachers to know how to properly assess their students to get the best idea of how to elicit the evidence they need to interpret student learning

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Assessment should not be synonymous with the word 'test'. Assessments should be used for teaching improvements as well as improvements for student learning

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Teachers need to be better equipped in formulating and understanding data

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I think providing assessment literacy to teachers is key to assessing future students.

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Teachers play important roles of effective assessments.

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Teachers need to be assessment literate and know how to and when to use the appropriate assessments in the classroom

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Assessment is crucial for teachers to effectively evaluate how much their students are learning. I learned about assessment literacy and how teachers need to be able to chose the right assessment. I also learned how it is important to not give up, and this will take decades for people to see change.

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Teachers have to constantly reflect on formative assessments to improve student learning

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Assessment literacy critical to teaching because teachers need to understand the different types of assessment available and what they of assessment best fits certain situations. It is also important for teacher to know what to do with information provided by the assessment.

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There are formal and informal ways that teachers can find out about what their students know (or don't know) and what their students can do. There are ways to make thinking visible.

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Flawed test effect student's learning and motivation.

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The reading discussed the importance of teachers identifying and elongating assessment biases. It is important to be aware of biases that exist in oneself

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Assessments are crucial part of the every day in the classroom, it is important to make goals of learning well known so that students know what to expect and can respond appropriately during assessments.

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From the reading, I have learned how important formative assessment is. I never really viewed that as assessment before and only thought of accountability assessments. I liked how the article emphasized that when someone is not assessment literate that there is a lot of room for error. A big idea I took from the article is that it takes more than a test to measure how effective the learning is.

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Something that stood out to me was that most of the current teachers today weren't required to learn anything about educational assessment and it's such a huge topic in education today. This makes me wonder what I'm not learning now that might be extremely important to know in 5 years

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Assessment should not be synonymous with test.

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Assessments are ways to show what the students learned/ where they might need help but are not the only way to measure what a student knows!

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Formative assessment is better than summative assessment

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Assessments can take on different forms and functions depending on what the teacher wishes to gain from those assessments.

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Interesting to note that we should make our assessments "instructionally sensitive" in order for our programs to work.

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I think it's shocking that "many of today's teachers know little about educational assessment" when this is a crucial way to track students' progress. I think that we need to change this by providing courses for teachers on how to properly assess students and how to switch the scary connotation we have on assessments.

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Assessments have a direct and indirect influence on what teachers do in the classroom

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Staying with traditional assessment techniques isnot  an effective way to help students learn.

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The importance of varied assessment and how we can use it to improve student learning. 

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The importance of varied assessment and how we can use it to improve student learning. 