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Technology in Support of Student Centered Learning

Assessment

What are the various types of assessment, their strengths and weaknesses?

The desired behavior based skills, knowledge, and attitudes are the objectives for the unit of instruction. Your instruction will develop the behaviors, and your assessments will create situations that call for their performance. Thus it is that objectives begin the instructional cycle, and they continue to control activities throughout the cycle. The instructional cycle is below.

Objectives
(In terms of behavior)

Instruction
(Develops behavior defined by objectives)

Assessment
(Create settings that call for skills defined by objectives)

Types of Assessment:

Decide on the percent of the evaluation that will come from each of the following types of assessment - Standard (paper and pencil), Portfolio, and/or Performance.

EVIDENCE of STUDENT SUCCESS

What can students do to demonstrate success?
Responses - written and oral
Presentations
Portfolios
Logs/journals
Examinations
Class tests/quizzes
Debate
Dialogue
Simulations
Role Playing
Graphic Organizers
Essays
Designing lessons
Teaching lessons
Producing products such as story books, series of drawings
Videotape documentaries

How can teachers measure success?

The Study Place: Assessment Types

This specific link takes you to a pdf that outlines different types of assessment and discusses them in depth. The website itself, www.thestudyplace.org includes a number of lesson plans, interactive ways to create your own lessons, and many other resources.