Location

Community Services & Continuing Education - Alexandria

Objectives

• • Distinguish different types of learning objectives • Define direct and indirect methods of assessments • Align assessment methods with different learning objectives • Analyze an assessment method for content validity • Evaluate your assessment methods and make improvements • Integrate different assessment measures into your courses.

Outcomes

By the end of this course you should be able to: • Students will be able to develop effective grading rubrics to assess student work and to promote learning in the classroom.• The student will develop skills and knowledge in assessing learners, classrooms, families and investigate the selection and design of evaluation instruments. • The student will expand their knowledge of how to interpret and use assessment data to improve learning in the classroom. • The student will be able to describe and distinguish between assessment, screening, information and formal assessments • The student will become familiar with measures and practices used to identify school readiness skills and educational interventions. • The student will identify key principles of a learner-centered paradigm of student assessment. • Students will identify key elements of reform in the assessment of student learning.

Course Contents

• Assessment as part of a developmental and instructional process • Why Do Teachers Need to Know About Assessment? • Deciding What to Assess and How to Assess It • Reliability of Assessment • Validity • Absence-of-Bias • Selected-Response Tests • Constructed-Response Tests • Performance Assessment • Portfolio Assessment • Affective Assessment • Improving Teacher Developed Assessments • Formative Assessment • Making Sense Out of Standardized Test Scores • Appropriate and Inappropriate Test-Preparation Practices • The Evaluation of Instruction • Assessment –Based Grading • Authentic Assessment • Developmental Screenings • Rubrics • Technology and Assessments