Assessments

Good objectives are measurable and describe the results you expect to achieve at the
end of your lesson activities.

=> ,when designing instruction and planning lessons, you should always begin with
your objectives.

=> Write clear objectives => Using action words that will help you determine what
activities will help your students learn and what assessment types you can use to
evaluate their learning.

Assessing Knowledge vs. Memory, and then Beyond

2 types of learning: memory and knowledge

Knowledge learning is generally accessed through performance based assessment,

where students are placed in situations that require them to apply the things they have
learned to complete a goal.

Transfer refers to the idea of taking something you have learned in one context, and
being able to apply it in a different, but similar context.

=> If your assessments and in connection your learning activities are not authentic,
students will have a difficult time taking the things they have learned in your class and
applying them in real world context outside of the classroom.

=> Thus performance based assessments should do more than just ask students to remember
or understand but should require them to synthesize information, analyze details,
evaluate ideas and create a product based on what they have learned.
Assessment Ideas to Make Your Life Easier

Assessment types:

Summative assessments are assessments that are included in a student's grade, and
which are used to make decisions or judgments about a student's ability in connection
with some type of benefit or perk.

Formative assessment on the other hand is assessment given to provide feedback to a

student or determine how to proceed with their instruction.

Not everything students do has to be graded

Having clear descriptions of the characteristics of a particular category
at a particular level makes it easier for me to evaluate students' abilities.
Save some of your students' work to give an example of each level

Peer review as a formative assessment

Create a list of error codes that you can refer students to when providing feedback on
writing assignments.