After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
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Understand how the realities of teaching-fast paced, hectic, and complex-are related to assessment.
- Understand how instructional decision making is related to the phases of instruction-pre instruction, during instruction, and post instruction.
- Understand the four components of classroom assessment: purpose, measurement, evaluation, use.
- Recognize that assessment standards for teachers exist and call for teachers being skilled in choosing, developing, interpreting, and using assessments and basing grading practices and communications on assessment results.
- Understand the link between classroom assessment and research on learning, motivation, and instruction.
- Recognize some of the recent trends in assessment regarding alternative assessments, authentic assessments, integrated assessments, student self-evaluation, and the importance of having public standards and criteria.
