Overview
Description
This class prepares teacher candidates to use assessment to improve student learning. The focus is on understanding summative and formative assessment, implementing technology to manage data, analyzing assessment results, and developing classroom assessment tools.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- formerly Sierra Nevada University Teacher Education student.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
formerly Sierra Nevada University Teacher Education student.
Units
Lecture1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Other
Related Courses
Formerly Known As SNU: EDUC 405/605
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- design formative assessments that match learning objectives with assessment formats to engage learners in demonstrating knowledge and skills.
- work independently and collaboratively to examine tests and other performance data to understand students’ progress and to guide planning.
- engage students in understanding and identifying quality work and provides them with effective descriptive feedback to guide their progress toward that work.
- model and structure processes that guide students in examining their own thinking and learning as well as the performance of others.
- effectively use multiple and appropriate types of assessment data to identify student learning needs and to develop differentiated learning experiences.
- prepare all students for the demands of particular assessment formats and appropriately modifies assessments or testing conditions for English language learners, students with disabilities, and students who are above grade level.
- continually seek innovative ways to employ technology to support assessment practice both to engage students more fully and to assess and address student needs.