Evidence Based Assessment
- Could include....observations, tests, peer assessments and practical performance
- Gauges attainment and progress
- Crucial to maximizing student outcomes
- Is not successful on its own. Still needs good teachers who will take this evidence and make it improve instruction in order to be successful.
Competency Based Assessment
- Students progress at their own pace
- The competencies are relevant and demonstratable skills
- Works well with non-traditional students who work different hours or have families.
- Potential setback is the questionable credibility in the eyes of employers
- Credibility is based on the quality of competencies being assessed.
Performance Based Assessment
- Students apply skills and knowledge from a unit
- Uses higher order thinking skills
- Students complete a task that mirrors the responsibility of a professional
- The assessments must be: complex, authentic, process/product orientated, open ended and time bound
Standards Based Assessment
- What must all students know and be able to do?
- Set high standards for ALL students and make the curriculum match that
- Meets local, state and federal standards
- A diploma or certificate is awarded once the standards have been mastered
- Do ALL students need all of these skills?
The New Wave of Assessment
- Preparation for the Future, Participatory, Dynamic, Playful
- What types of professional development will be available to teach the teachers?
- How will these work with state standards?
- Can we ever fully give up our traditional assessments?
I appreciate your breakdown of the assessment types! I may use this as my new reference page.
ReplyDeleteUnder the standards based assessment you question if all students need all these skills and I often wonder the same. I do think the 21st century standards are needed by all students to enter this ever increasing digital/online world but those are "soft" skills that don't often make many standards lists.