Module Three: Overview of Assessment

Module Three:
Powerpoint: Overview of Assessment

This powerpoint was extremely helpful in learning so much about the assessment process. It will be a great reference when assessing students in the future. I especially was interested in the four types of assessment: screening, diagnostic, monitoring, and outcome. I did not know all those components came together to create one, large assessment. It says that progress should be monitored monthly or weekly, and I would say it should be weekly through small, formative assessments. The more feedback a student is receiving, the more benefit a child will receive from teaching methods improving.

When this presentation discussed scoring, I did not know about "Stanines" and what that type of scoring that represented. Most schools score differently and use different programs, however, it is always interesting to me to compare types of scoring and the numbers different programs use to represent low, middle and high scores.

Overall, this presentation was a great review and learning for me. I appreciated the definitions of validity vs. reliability and formative vs. summative assessments. This presentation will be a great resource to use in the future when doing assessments in my classroom.