Assessments

1. High Stakes Standardized Assessments

2. Purpose of Assessments

3. Statistics in Education

4. Grading

5. helps differentiated instructions

6. evidence of learning

7. does not accurately assess the student's true abilities

8. causes anxiety and stress

9. compares student to a larger peer group

10. provides different information about students' progress

11. mean, mode, median are most widely used statistics in education

12. can give several visuals such as bar graphs that give a bird's eye view on progress

13. no-zero grading teaches to never give up

14. no-zero grading motivates

15. Formative Assessments

16. Summative Assessments

17. how are we doing?

18. checkpoint

19. steers us to the right path

20. helps the instructor help the student

21. extremely important that they align with learning objectives

22. should be differentiated and include a variety of test types such as multiple choices, short answers or performance based

23. rubrics are an important way to grade performance based assessments They provide the instructor a way to grade based on degrees of performance.

24. no-zero grading policy encourages students to work harder