Assessment

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Assessment

• What is assessed is valued and
• what is valued is assessed.

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Purposes of Assessment?

• Grading
• Diagnostic
• Accountability
• Communication
• Placement
• Motivation
• Feedback
• Improve Instruction and Evaluate Program

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Types of Assessment

• Teacher
• Peer
• Self

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Types of Assessment

• Authentic
• Performance
• Formative
• Summative/Cumulative/Audit

• Formal
• Informal
• Traditional
• Alternative

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Assessment Tools

• Observation
• Journals
• Logs
• Written Tests
• Performance Tests
• Checklists
• Interviews

• Drawings
• Video
• Game Analysis
• Letters
• Reports
• Art work

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Designing Assessments

• Design is dependent on purpose
• Congruent with instructional goals
• Feasible
• Based on accurate content
• Developmentally appropriate
• Includes clear criteria and rubrics

BOTTOM LINE THE PERFECT MATCH THAT IS EASY TO USE
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Criteria and Rubrics

• Criteria helps teachers define excellence
• Criteria communicates to students what
  constitutes excellence and how to evaluate their
  work
• Informal subjectivity becomes transformed into
  more formal objectivity
• Criteria is embedded in instruction
• Rubrics define levels of achievement

TaKe OuT tHe GuEsS wOrK
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Assessment Examples, Definitions, and Perspectives
How do we know WHEN they know it - Assess

• (http//users.rowan.edu/cone/techassassessment.ht
  m)
• (http//users.rowan.edu/cone/assessmentinfo.html)
  
• Student involved assessment (http//www.youtube.co
  m/watch?vVXCE3BnMTsc)
• Pangrazi, R. (2004). Dynamic physical education
  for elementary school children (14th ed). San
  Francisco Pearson/Benjamin Cummings. (pp.
  105-126)