4.1 & 4.2
The educational term for what students experience in schools.
Curriculum
This encompasses all the possible ways teachers determine what students know and can do measured against standards or other learning goals.
Classroom Assessments
one that is given to multiple groups of students, designed for specific grade levels, and typically repeated annually
Standardized Test
Name a person or organization who you feel has been most accountable for your own learning, or the learning you see in the classroom.
Open ended. Any answer is accepted. Great job!
This defines what students should know and be able to do relative to subject areas at specific grade levels.
Content Standards
Assessing student knowledge and skill levels before beginning a unit of study.
Diagnostic Assessment
What does NAEP stand for?
The National Assessment of Education Progress
These people have the choice of listening, participating, behaving, and learning- or not
Students
The National Governors Associations (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) created this.
May be a project, a demonstration, a creation, or anything that requires the application of knowledge and skills.
Performance Assessment
Explain one thing the NAEP does.
-Allows for the achievement tracking of students at specific grade levels over time, both nationally and by individual states. – Provides a basis for state-to-state comparisons. - Allows for results tracking for a particular subject area and for comparisons among subject areas.
These people grade students, and much of their future success rests on these people.
Teachers
Proposing 4 questions that should be asked throughout the process of curriculum development.
Tyler Rationale
Makes judgements about, and assigns values to, the results of assessments.
Evaluation
What is validity?
If the assessment measures what it is intended to measure.
These people make financial financial, programmatic, and personnel decisions that affect schools and classrooms.
Local school districts and school boards
Name one characteristic of the common core state standards.
Are aligned with college and work expectations.
Are clear, understandable, and consistent.
Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills.
Build on strengths and lessons of current state standards.
Are informed by other top=performing countries, so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society.
Are evidence and research based.
One thing a portfolio may serve as...
-A compilation of all the work a student does over a period of time.
- A selected collection of work intended to show growth over time.
-A display tool for work samples that showcase the student’s best work.
Explain one way standardized testing can be used in beneficial ways.
- Modeling mature and reasoned responses to the assessments
-Encouraging positive attitudes in colleagues and students.
-Teaching students that life is full of challenges we may not like or agree with, but that we must meet head on with our best efforts.
Name at least 2 people or organizations accountable for student learning.
Students, Teachers, Parents and families, Local school districts and school boards, Communities, State and Federal governments.