Discussion Week 3: Assessment by Bridget Morton https://padlet.com/bridget_morton31/assess Reflect on your views of assessment after reading this week's material, along with your own personal views on grading. en-us 2018-09-10 17:03:36 UTC 2019-05-30 17:08:37 UTC hello@padlet.com The role of a formative assessment is to get the students to understand bits and pieces and then the summative assessment is pulling of those bits and pieces together for an understanding of all the standards taught throughout the year. https://padlet.com/bridget_morton31/assess/wish/328070377 2019-02-06 00:29:45 UTC https://padlet.com/bridget_morton31/assess/wish/328070377 Another role bridget_morton31 https://padlet.com/bridget_morton31/assess/wish/328433566 Another role of Formative assessment that is very important is to help you as the teacher make instructional decisions. What is understood by students? What needs to be re-taught? How can you restructure class information to ensure learning, etc. I would actually argue this is the most important role of formative assessment - making instructional decisions based on the assessment. 

]]> 2019-02-06 18:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/bridget_morton31/assess/wish/328433566 Grades https://padlet.com/bridget_morton31/assess/wish/328450572 This is a part of teaching I am still trying to wrap my head around because with some students grades really matter and they want to do really good. But with other students the grade is not something they tend to care about. So I want to get to a point where I can show students that the grade is a reflection of how they developing throughout the year and not just on if they can study and pass a test. I like Linda Christensen's point of view that students should take risks with there learning even if they fail (2013, p. 324). But not have to worry about failing because there is not a grade attached to the failure. Rather learn from that and then reattempt the assignment.]]> 2019-02-06 19:20:25 UTC https://padlet.com/bridget_morton31/assess/wish/328450572 Grade Composure https://padlet.com/bridget_morton31/assess/wish/328454029 Burke goes into detail about how grades should be linked to standards and how everything should be specifically laid out for students to be able to completely understand what is expected of them.  I agree with this and I am trying to make grades be assignments that help students grow but are also fun and exciting and not just another worksheet.  ]]> 2019-02-06 19:25:38 UTC https://padlet.com/bridget_morton31/assess/wish/328454029 Grading Standards https://padlet.com/bridget_morton31/assess/wish/328455404 I think that this is an open ended question that can have three separate answers.  I would describe myself as a flexible grader because I allow students to do corrections and then resubmit assignments for the purpose of double checking their responses and not just to make a better grade. Some grades however are absolute like the state final exam which gives everyone that takes it an absolute grade whether you did great or poorly doesn't matter the grade is absolute. But then some grades are relative because you need to take into consideration a student's ability to accomplish something. Some students, no matter the amazing effort of the attempt, are probably not going to accomplish certain assignments so some differentiation might be in order to still see if these students understand the same standards.]]> 2019-02-06 19:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bridget_morton31/assess/wish/328455404