Chapter 4 went into a basic description of three forms to assess students rubrics, self-assessment, and portfolios. Rubrics are lengthy processes that are created and should be examined by teachers for content, clarity, practicality, and technical quality. These are used as powerful assessment tools. Self-assessments are important in the class to help students better understand as well as give them feedback they may need. The book described many different ways to do self-assessments such as self-checking lists and rubrics, videotaping performances, fill in the blank responses, interactive notebooks, etc. Wormeli discussed portfolios and how they could be as simple as a folder of collected work to as complex as multi-year selected and analyzed work pieced together to represent a student’s life. Portfolios often act as showcases for ones information. This chapter was a good way to determine the best tools to use for assessing students that you felt would fit best in your classroom.
All of us are going to have different classrooms and have different ideas about how to run our classrooms; however, we also shared many similar views to what we thought about these methods for assessing students. Many of us were fond of rubrics, stating that they were a good simple way to make objectives clear for our students. Clarity is an important aspect when teaching and these rubrics do a good job of incorporating important information in a clear and precise way. Many of us had a tendency to list off the many steps in a rubric and this made some nervous, but like many things we will get better at it with time. Many agreed that portfolios were a good method to assess students’ mastery of a topic or subject. They show students growth while also keeping every aspect of it organized and orderly. Portfolios seemed to be thought as very flexible being either simplistic or complex at any given time depending on what the teacher wants. Portfolios are a good way to have students and teachers both set goals. It was an anonymous decision that self-assessment is a good way to keep students on task because they use goals and the idea of setting goals. Many self-assessments have the ability of getting students to work harder to reach the goals they set out for themselves. Student self-assessments are a great and simple way to see how much your students have learned as well as get feedback on assignments. Overall all three systems seemed beneficial to us and are certainly forms of assessing students we can see ourselves using in our classrooms.
Links for rubrics:
How to Self-Assessment:
Example of self-assessment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIflgA-ngVk&feature=related (like this one better)
Page on interactive notebook:
http://www.slideshare.net/danahuff/interactive-notebooks (Cool incorporates technology.)
Portfolio:
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