Questions for Teachers

Questions for Teachers

1.      How do you know your assessments are effective?

·         The teacher knows the assessments are effective by how the students are relating to what they are learning in class. The teacher also knows the assessment is effective by seeing that the students understand the assessment.

2.      As a teacher in training, what do I need to know about assessment?

·         As a teacher in training, I need to know the different kinds of assessment throughout the school year such as Final Exam, SBA, Sat 10, and other different forms of assessments. I also need to know how to proctor the different types of assessments.

3.      What are several ways you assess your students?

·         Several ways the teacher assess the students are by class work, quizzes, test, oral questioning, written reflections, and observations.

4.      What is the purpose of assessing students?

·         The purpose of assessing students is analyze progress in the classroom and if students understand the information.

5.      What do you do with the results of your assessments?

·         The results of the assessments will be turned into data to show parents the student’s progress and share it with students to see where they are at.

6.      What are your most effective assessments and why?

·         The most effective assessment used by the teacher is combinations of several assessments, considering all types of assessment because of the fact that it will help analyze students and check for understanding.

7.      Does PSS have a certain guideline for assessing?

·         Yes. They used the 4, 3, 2, 1 scale which shows performance of student in the classroom.

8.      Why is assessment important?

·         It is important because to be able to see student progress. It also help provide evidence to parents and teachers that want to know what the student needs to work on in the classroom.

9.      What type of assessments do you prefer and why?

·         The teacher prefers written assessments because to have evidence of student learning in the classroom.

10.  How do students receive feedback?

·         The teacher gives students feedback through one to one conference, progress reports and report cards.

Self-Reflection

James Jucutan

Self Assessment: Chapter 5 Absence-of-Bias

Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know

Ed 450 Assessment and Evaluation- Ms. Soledad Camacho

September 24, 2012

Self-Reflection Questions

1.      1. What did you want the class to learn from your teachback presentation?

In this teachback, I wanted the students to learn about the two different forms of assessments which are offensive and unfair penalization. I wanted students to know and understand the approaches to reviewing assessment for bias, which are judgmental and empirical approaches. I also wanted the students to accommodate all students for enhancement of student learning in the classroom.

2.      2. How did you assess what they learned?

Throughout my teachback, I assessed what the students learn through formative assessment. Several formative assessments I used was role play, commercial time, questioning, discussion, and observations.

3.     3.  I am proudest of these components of my teachback presentation, which are the activities.

The activities that I set up for the students were well engaging, that will keep the students interested. With the students I have observed, I made sure it matches what they are interested in. For example, the role play activity for the two forms of assessment bias was engaging. The students came up of creative scenes and showed understanding of the content.

4.  4.     I can improve my teaching in time management and presentation.

With the time allotted to my presentation, timer would have been a wonderful and effective tool to manage time. I did last minute changes to my lesson due to time. I did not thoroughly go through the other activities that would have been engaging. I also feel that my presentation skills still need a lot of improvement. I need to try and relax while doing a teachback. When I’m nervous, it really affects my effectiveness of teaching the students what I was suppose to teach them.

5.     5.  Ideas to contemplate?

The chapter presented to me was based on assessment of bias. I seriously did not realize about assessment bias referring to not only offending people, but also unfair penalization. Unfair penalization is the unfamiliarity of some students that haven’t even been exposed to those kinds of content.

6.     6.  Why is it important to study this chapter?

It is important to study this chapter because it will help teachers identify and understand absence of bias and wiping out assessment bias in the classroom. Assessment bias will affect student performances. Teachers need to be able to know and identify these forms of assessment bias, including offensive and unfair penalization, so they know what to look for and how to make a test that does not involve assessment bias. All students have the rights to learn.

Here is the link to my powerpoint:

http://www.slideshare.net/jameseducation5/ed450-absence-ofbias