EDUC 303

While I have not completed my assessments for my portfolio yet, I am finding that each type of assessment requires a different kind of thinking while creating them. For example, I find myself examining if I were in a student's shoes for each of my questions, and I also am trying to look through a lens of students who may be at a disadvantage for a certain test (i.e- an English language learner, a student who is hard of hearing, a student with autism, etc.) Throughout my planning for these assessments, I am finding the selected response to be fairly simple to create. I feel like I am super familiar with this, as I was tested in this format so often growing up and in college. Testing knowledge seems to leave out a lot of the grey area some of the other assessments have. Extended written responses are also seeming somewhat easy for me, as well. I am still working on this one, so I am not too deep into it yet. However, I also feel like I have so much experience with this form of ...

Over the course of the last few weeks, we have all been asked to submit various lesson plans. This started off really tricky and time consuming for me. However, like most things, as time goes on it has become less straining and more smooth. Contrary to probably almost anybody, I actually feel like the left hand column comes sort of naturally to me. I do not struggle very much with filling that area out, especially after I received clarification from Dr. Bedford about it. After taking some ESL courses over the last year, as well, I find the Language Support really simple to me. I was challenged in these classes to alter lessons and material for English language learners and their families, so due to this practice, I can quickly find the areas that may be overly challenging for an ELL. (Ignore the Super ELL part of this graphic. It's an advertisement. The other info is super interesting though!) I am not very confident in my ability to decide which assessments should go wher...

The four categories of assessment that we have been learning about ultimately can capture basically all types of assessment that will be conducted in our future classrooms. I think it is very important to take into account what type of assessment is best fit for our learning targets, as we have been practicing this week. Assessments seems to present pros and cons in general, so it is not surprising that both are present among the categories, as well. For example, a pro of selected response is that it is a great way to measure knowledge mastery, and it gives clear results in regard to right or wrong. It also has the capacity to cover a wide range of information regarding the knowledge topic. However, selected response, especially multiple choice, could be skewed due to the chance that students are guessing. Realistically, a student that does not know any of the material would not do well on a test by guessing, but some students may have a lucky day. Additionally, some students may kno...