Tuesday, October 16, 2012

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:



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