1.Reading Assessment in the Content Areas Aguilar Fall 2011 TED 406 Teaching Secondary Reading
2. One of the common faults of teachers isteaching students things They already know. 3. Boring. 4. How can we find out what students know, are able to do, and are interested in? We can assess students for all of these 5. First, a Word on Assessment There are many kinds of assessments Formal and informal Summative and formative Commercially-published and teacher-made 6. Assessment Gathering of information on students Strengths and areas of needs in all areas of concern
Testing (Part of the assessment process)
Standardized, chapter tests, spelling test Formative, functional, behavioral, criterion, norm Assessment v. Testing 7. Assessments Vary Different assessments exist for different reasons and have different characteristics 8. Assessments Vary Different assessments exist for different reasons and have different characteristics 9. Assessments Vary Different assessments exist for different reasons and have different characteristics 10. Assessments Vary Different assessments exist for different reasons and have different characteristics 11. Assessments Vary Different assessments exist for different reasons and have different characteristics 12. And have different purposes
Standardized testsare intended to compare the performance of an individual to a group, or a group to a group Normal Curve
13. Criterion-Referenced testsare intended to measure the performance of individuals on a common, pre-determined task. (Everyone can get a 100%.)
