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Assessment is explained as the method of evaluating personality and collecting information for educational decision making. It serves multiple purposes such as certifying student learning, providing feedback, and predicting outcomes. Eight trends in assessment, like standards-based education, legal activism, and performance assessment, are also discussed.
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Assessment: An Overview What assessment is . . . and what assessment is not.
Assessment: An Overview Assessment is defined as: “. . . a method of evaluating personality in which an individual, living in a group under partly controlled physical and social conditions, meets and solves a variety of lifelike problems, including stress problems, and is observed and rated.”
Assessment: An Overview Also – “The interpretive integration of application tasks (procedures) to collect objective-relevant information for educational decision making and communication about the impact of the teaching-learning process.”
Assessment: An Overview Measurement + Evaluation Assessment
Assessment: An Overview • Purpose of Assessment • Certify student learning • Feedback • Planning for instruction • Diagnostics • Summative & Formative evaluation • Prediction • Motivation • Research
Assessment: An Overview • Uses for Assessment: • Selecting, appraising, and clarifying instructional objectives • Developing and reporting student achievement • Planning & improving learning experiences • Evaluating accountability • Counseling • Selecting students for special programs
Assessment: An Overview Eight Trends in Assessment • Standards-based education (SBE) • Requirement(s): • Clear identification of learning goals/objectives • Performance standards for each goal • High standards for performance • Applicable to all students • Public reporting
Assessment: An Overview • Accountability • Legal Activism • Concerns for Fairness • Item Response Theory • Performance Assessment • State, National, & International Testing • Computerization • Processing test data • Reporting test scores • Test administration
Assessment: An Overview • What is the purpose of assessment? • Positive & negative aspects of assessment to be considered. • What direction do you see assessment going? • What major issues need to be addressed regarding assessment over the next 5? • Other issues, comments, concerns.
Assessment: An Overview Assessment drives instruction. How does measurement, testing, and evaluation fit into this statement?
