Throughout Chapter 5 of UbD and DI, Tomlinson and Tighe discuss assessments and the reason why they are so important. Assessments provide evidence to help answer questions we might have about our students. Through assessments we as educators can get a complete understanding of what our students know, understand, and can do. However in order to have your assessment be reliable it must possess multiple sources of evidence. To describe this Tomlinson and Tighe relate it to photos. I especially found their relation interesting about how you can tell a lot more about a person from an album of photos rather than just one photograph. Some examples the book gives as ways to assess students are the six facets of understanding, the GRASPS frame, a variety of assessments such as summative, diagnostic, and formative. The book then discusses how it is important to figure out students’ strengths and weaknesses. This helps by showing how they improve in the end. If we as teachers are giving our students feedback it must be constructive. In the book they suggest how though some ways of positive feedback encourages them one must specify specific areas in order to help the student understand what they do well with and what they do not.
In my classroom I hope to keep this in mind. I especially like the idea of using many strategies of assessment to help my students succeed and allow me an accurate view of where each student it at. I believe another spot mentioned in the book that is crucial in my future class would be giving my students specific feedback. In English feedback given back is normally beneficial or of no importance to the student. I need to make sure my feedback benefits the students so they can better learn and grow.
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