EDU 132: Week 4 Reflection by Nicolas Parés https://padlet.com/nicpares/qo4fmfy994y9xsd1 Post a reflective object and description that related to the weekly concepts. Make sure to fulfill the assignment requirements. en-us 2021-06-19 22:32:02 UTC 2025-10-16 17:13:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f393.png Week 4 https://padlet.com/nicpares/qo4fmfy994y9xsd1/wish/2531939382 The below quote came from A Primer_ Diagnostic, Formative, & Summative Assessment. I have always believed that what you do in the classroom is more important than any test. If you can get your students to come to board and you have them solve the problem that they are having problems with it helps them retain it better then they just going through the motions and learn nothing from what you are trying to teach them.
"Assessment should be more than merely a test at the end of instruction to see
how students perform under special conditions; rather, it should be an integral
part of instruction that informs and guides teachers as they make instructional
decision."

As Jeanine stated the biggest thing that students are working towards is to get their GED. I personal have never used a practice test to see how they are doing it isn't that I can't it is just like I have said before Essential Education, but I have assigned them for the student to see what they need to work on. If they want homework so that they can feel more comfortable with a section of the practice test then I do what I can to help them out. 
"The big summative assessments are the four GED tests. The practice tests may also be considered summative because they are taken after a unit of instruction, but I use them for formative assessment (and diagnostic assessment) as well."

In the picture above I believe that it takes everyone student and teachers to make sure everything is being taken care of and they are getting what they need to be successful.
]]> 2023-03-26 17:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nicpares/qo4fmfy994y9xsd1/wish/2531939382 Assessment and Standardized Tests https://padlet.com/nicpares/qo4fmfy994y9xsd1/wish/2532144813 I learned a lot from all the readings this week, but the thing that made the biggest impact on me was from the UbD White Paper, buried in the Q&A section. It was a question about whether the UbD method works when you have to teach to a test. It says that this "perceived incompatibility is based on a flawed assumption that the only way to raise test scores is to cover those things that are tested and practice the test format . . . it does not follow that the only way to meet those standards is merely to mimic the format of a standardized test." It really opened my eyes to how I might be able to get to the deeper learning/ reasoning required for the GED with other activities and assessments. To develop my assessment expertise, I plan to do more reading about different types of assessment and, more importantly, try more of them in the classroom so both the students and I can gauge what they are learning. ]]> 2023-03-27 00:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nicpares/qo4fmfy994y9xsd1/wish/2532144813