While The Concept Of Pre-Assessments Is Not New To Me,

I believe assessment is important and is the basis of planning for instruction, whether it is diagnostic prior to learning, formative during units or lessons, or summative to evaluate student learning. Rowan’s quote in Every Teacher’s Guide to Assessment, "After all, in the end, the problem is less the idea of testing itself, but how we design them, apply, them, and make use of their data." definitely has an impact on my assessment practices. I feel it is necessary to make sure the student acquires all aspects of the learning. Assessment should be used to bring a value for students. Within my instruction, I implement daily formative assessments which may include turn and share, quick writes, graphic organizers, online discussion responses, KahootIt, and other forms. Designing the appropriate formative assessment to match the lesson is important to assess how the learning is taught and whether the students are showing progress. In addition, I have worked on building blocks of formative assessments in checklist style leading up to the point of reviewing for a summative test. Each of these are checked off as completed and instant feedback is given. Feedback from an assessment is essential to student learning and how a teacher will ensure the content is being acquired.

Assessments are the way to find out if learning has actually taken place. Enabling us, as tutors, to see if objectives have been met.

A formative assessment provides informal feedback and information during the teaching process. This assessment measures student progress and performance thus allowing further improvement and development. It can also assess the teacher’s progress as an instructor, enabling the teacher to evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching methods.

Formative assessment is a more formal type of assessing where the focus is on monitoring pupils response to the lesson and any progress made.

Some teachers may say a pre-test is a waste of time and it not useful, but I believe differently. I included a pre-test in lesson plan because I thought it would be useful for the students to understand what content they know and what they need to work on, before the first graded assignment was given. If students understand their strengths and weaknesses right from the start, they can create a better plan of how

Assessment provides information to support the planning of effective learning experiences. By assessing my students I will understand better what they know and can do, so I can further extend their learning where they are already accomplished or I can support the areas which need work. Assessment is also useful as a diagnostic tool (McConney 2015 pp1) when it comes to learning problems and also giftedness in students, so that they can then be better provided for.

For the pre assessment, I used a KWL chart to evaluate what they know, what they want to know and what they learned. This pre assessment will be used again at the end of the unit to measure how much students learn.

Assessments are a really important part of learning and are an effective strategy in helping teachers focus on the methods they are using and how successful they are on the students and how well they are learning from them and gives them the chance to develop on certain areas that may not be working well, it also gives the teachers a chance to look at individual children and their development and to see which areas they are struggling or excelling so they can determine if using different techniques on them will help them make progress as not all children or young people will learn the same some children may struggle while others the technique really helps so they have to adjust the work and activities to certain children so they all have a chance to develop and grow.

Assessment is essential in teaching throughout any subject or course in practical and theory work. First initial assessment is used to ensure students are on the correct course. Once learning starts differentiated formative assessments are carried out throughout ending with summative assessment which usually warrants a grade or a pass.

The first article that I viewed was on Edutopia and it was titled Why Formative Assessments Matter. This article was a very helpful in that it was a review of what formative assessments are, why they are used, and when and how you use them. The middle part, why they are used, it reinforces that they are used for, to inform, not to punish. This is important to remember as we are assessing and planning instruction for students each day. Learning and showing what you have learned should never feel like a punishment. At the end of the article, in the last section, there were suggestions on ways to formatively assess students in a way that would not feel as though they are being punished. Instead, they are enjoying showing what they have learned. The last tip in this article was to watch, look, and listen. It is important to remember that to formatively assess students you must constantly

Assessment is a tool that begins and ends successful teaching. At the beginning it establishes what is currently known and at the end it establishes what has been learnt as the result of the planned curriculum.

Pre-assessments are I important when it when it comes to teaching a lesson because it allows us to see what students already know from the lesson that is going to be taught. Pre-assessments also give students a preview of what they will learn from the lesson. Before I begin my lesson I will inform my students that we are going to start a new unit on literature in which it has to deal with the five senses. This is how my script will go: Hello class today we will begin to learn about the five sense. To first start off I would like to know what you guys know about the five senses. The first question would be: How many of you know what the five senses are? The second question would be: What sense do we use our eyes for? The third question would

Formative assessments are non-graded, during instruction, checks for understanding. Effective formative assessments are part of a planned process of instruction that regularly monitors student comprehension and understanding. For the unit you are fully developing, please include a minimum

I think my answers to the quiz are supportive of classroom assessment done right. By that I mean that as long as the assessments are bing used to help the teachers ability to teach the material and the student is able to show their progress and learning then yes I support assessments. On the other hand if the assessment is done just to calculate a grade or to meet requirements of the school then no those kind of assessments are not necessary.

As a part of the instructional process, a formative assessment is very important. It is generally incorporated into the basic practices of the classroom, and provides information that teachers can use in order to adjust the learning and teaching "in real time" (Adey, 2005; Leung, 2007; McClain & Cobb, 2001). In other words, teachers see what they need to do right away, because they are engaged in what the students are learning and how the students are responding to that learning. Because of that, formative assessments are good at helping both students and teachers stay informed about the understanding students are having regarding a particular lesson (Clarke, 2001). Because that information is provided so quickly, changes can be made if there are problems. Teachers do not have to wait until a test or other milestone indicates that there are issues with which the students are struggling, and that is very good news for the teachers and for the students who need help and support.