PARCC Vs MCAS

After a long year of teaching the core curriculum standards, every year in the spring, students are to take a progress test to determine if they have learned the minimum required, to determine if their teacher had taught effectively. When I think about assessments, I think about State assessments, standardized test, Maps, and AYP. However not all assessments are test. There are many different types of assessments, for example, there are comprehensive, formative, summative, and performance assessments. Different types of assessments help guide students to do the very best work they are capable of doing.

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Assessment plays a significant role in the learning experience of students. It determines their progression through their programmes and enables them to demonstrate that they have achieved the intended learning outcomes. It is assessment that provides the main basis for public recognition of achievement, through the awarding of qualifications and/or credit.

Assessment, both formative and summative, plays a significant part in the learning experience as it determines progression and enables learners to demonstrate that they have achieved their desired learning outcomes.

I also believe that is important to use different types of assessments throughout the years. Students should be familiar with both selected and constructed response tests. These types of tests have different purposes in the classroom, and so both should be used. Selected response questions are useful in subjects that require the recollection of information, such as history and science. Constructed response tests are useful for subjects where the concepts could be a little more vague and in which there could be multiple answers, such as English. However, I believe that it is important for students to be familiar with both versions, as they will encounter both types throughout their entire academic career. It is important that teachers begin exposing their students to various assessment formats as early as possible, so that students become comfortable with different formats. This will ensure that students do not fail a test, simply because they did not understand the formatting of the test.

Also the TCAP does not assess the entirety of the Colorado Academic Standards, nor does it assess the new standards at the same level of difficulty, which will be expected once the new standards are implemented (Colorado Department of Education). So as of the 2014/2015 Colorado Schools will be implementing the new Partnership For Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) exam which will be based directly on the Common Core State Standards. So now Third grades students in Colorado must:

Assessment is carried out to ensure that learning has taken place. This is used to measures the learner’s knowledge and skills in their chosen area of learning. Assessment can be used to encourage learners to ask questions on anything they have not understood, learners at some point will have to know that they will have to prove their knowledge and understanding to the standards of the awarding body.

Within the classroom their needs to be a variety of assessment strategies as not all learners will be able to express their knowledge to the best of their ability in some forms of assessment.

My first professional achievement would be obtaining my degree at MATC and during my time at MATC my accomplishments would be making it to the dean’s list four times during my stay. What are the best ways to include them into the profile? I believe the best way to incorporate this into my would profile would be under my education profile.

With the current knowledge that I have regarding the CCSS and the PARCC assessment, I am able to firmly agree that it is not right for a state to move away from the CCSS and institute their own, as well as to continue in using the PARCC as the assessment for the standards. It does not provide the alignment that teachers and students are striving for--goes against the alignment and the idea of providing students across the country with a high-quality common education. In fact, it is important for states to understand that the CCSS are standards that “were drafted by experts and teachers from across the country and are designed to ensure that students are prepared for today’s entry-level careers, freshman-level college courses,

This year for the first time the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) will include psychological topics. It will now devote twenty-five percent to these questions. Before psychology was included the MCAT only focused on biology, chemistry and physics. In addition, it will recognize the importance of socio-cultural and behavioral determinants that affect health. What do you guys think about this? I think that twenty-five percent is big if you think about that this is the first time it is included. Do you think that it should be more or less? Do you think it is important that doctors learn about psychology? What about the opposite, which would be therapists learning what doctors do? Should this percentage stay the same or increase in small amounts

Providing health care services in MMC units does get some challenges both in medical services side and technology support side. Some of medical services challenges are how to design in a such small van a functional and consistent services as provided in office at affordable price. And when dealing with patient’s medical history, CHF need to comply with government regulatory standard like JCAHO, HIPPA. Finding the solution for cost of transportation could also be an issue… But with the scope of our analysis we will concentrate on technology challenges that CHF have to face.

As an educator it is very important that a teacher uses different methods to teach the variety of different learning styles, and it is also important that the teacher uses a variety of assessment procedures. People don’t learn the same, and people don’t test the same either. I personally, am horrible when it comes to taking multiple choice and problem solving type assessments. I do better with essay and writing assessments, presentations, and teaching back what I have learned. With the understanding of how I can best be assessed myself, it will be important when I am the teacher that I use many methods to assess and grade my students work.

Assessment is carried out to ensure that learning has taken place. It measures the learner’s knowledge and skills in their learning area. Assessment encourages learners to ask questions on anything they have not fully understood, as learners know that they will have to prove their knowledge and understanding to the standards of the awarding body.

Collect quality practice tests and question banks for the MCAT preparation. Kaplan, Examkrackers, The Berkeley Review (TBR), Next Step and The Princeton Review offer many practice tests for the MCAT. Either buy them or search the library for these test prep books as they have access to question set and practice tests too. AAMC also provides two practice tests which are quite similar to the actual MCAT exam. The practice tests of Examkrackers, Next Step and TBR are hard and of better quality than the Kaplan and The Princeton Review.