Assessment

            Finally, since this class is about assessment I learned a lot about assessing students. I learned about the need for both formative and summative assessment. I also learned about alternative assessment for students such as ELL’s or students with learning disabilities. Professor Behrens taught us about a lot of assessments that we can use in our future classes. I learned summative assessments such as the QRI, the DRA, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, the San Diego Quick, multiple motivation assessments. I’ve also learned about a lot of formative assessment that I would love to implement in my future classroom. I loved when Professor Behrens gave us three cups one red, one yellow and one green. The red cup is when a student needs help immediately, the yellow cup means that the student might need some help or clarification, and the green cup means the student understands! I think this is an amazing idea to be able to monitor your students.  You get to see how they are doing during the actual process; you don’t have to wait until after the activity is over and graded to see if they understand it or not. Another formative assessment that Professor Behrens shared with us was the take away slips, observations, questions, and think-pair-share. We also did brain dumping, which we wrote down as many things as we could about what we had learned the previous class; this helped our comprehension, because writing deepens comprehension! (ESOL 5.1, 5.2, 5.3) (REC 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 5.13, 6.10, 6.11)