Ch 13 assessment

Assessment is the process of monitoring student’s progress towards important learning goals and objectives. This chapter covers many ways teachers may assess their students. It is stated that teachers are moving away from tests and focusing more on monitoring students ability to put the knowledge into practice. The chapter starts with a basic introduction to assessment, which basically includes the idea that teachers should interweave assessments into the course work. This will allow teachers to know how well they are doing and if students understand the material and it will provide evidence that they taught the material. From this book I’m starting to feel like a teacher has to build evidence the same way as a lawyer to protect their job…?
The book goes on to talk about assessments and how you could use technology to do your assessments. It reiterates Teachers need to reevaluate their methods of assessing students learning in a technology-rich environment with the goal of considering and learning new ways for gathering evidence of learning. I question this gathering evidence…? But I understand that as teachers we must be able to prove that we did our jobs.
The final section includes the alternative to testing. The book encourages teachers to move away from tests. Especially true false tests, and move over to videos, portfolios, reports, and web projects. The last part gives many examples of different ways of assessing students learning. This chapter shows teachers how to document student learning and prove that they have taught something. It seems like a lot of covering your butt. But, that seems to be the way of the world and will provide a substantial base of information for studies to be conducted on how students learn.