You're the Teacher: Assessments

Students in Exploring Teaching have been busy at work completing their last major assignment, “You’re the Teacher: Assessments.” Students divided up into groups and had to become the expert on one type of summative assessment. For this project, students had to put together a lesson plan, design the lesson, activities and notes handout and teach the class. We took this lesson one step further and students had to create an assessment assessing the class over their assessment lesson that followed all the assessment guidelines (try saying that 10 times fast).

            For example, one of our groups taught about True False assessments. For their assessment, they had to come up with at least 5 test questions over True False that were written in True False format.

1.      True or False? One strength of true/false tests is that you cover a lot of content is short period of time.

2.      True or False? One weakness of true/false tests is that they’re hard to write because you can’t have any true evidence in a false statement.

3.      True or False? On a true/false test the statements should be complex and hard to read.

4.      True or False? On a true/false test you should keep the sentences short.

5.      True or false? One strength of true/false tests is that they’re easy and reliable to grade.

Yesterday Casey and Kaylee presented a lesson over Authentic Assessments, which assess students’ knowledge based on actually “real world” tasks. They created a rubric and had the class split up into two teams to create poster about Christmas that demonstrates helping and how you can incorporate holidays into your room decorations and character education. This was a great way to assess Teachers, because teachers are responsible for decorating their own classroom.

Check out what students created below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Students took the large assessment test today, having to write an essay, complete completion, short answer, true/false, matching, multiple Choice and High Order Thinking questions. Overall, I think everyone is glad to be done with assessments in Exploring Teaching.