Week 2 Assessmet

This week Lily Bueno and I discussed the reading questions. We talked about how it is a great idea to combine the six ways student demonstrate their knowledge: Remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create, using these six levels, teachers can develop learning goals for their students. During our discussion we thought of how effective it is to design a test that is both valid and reliable. This way students will be graded fairly and accurately. Thinking of an example of a product performance we came up with the example of a student learning a new piano piece and presenting it to the teacher at the end. For process performance the student would learn the piano piece along with his teacher, helping him through the process, while for product performance, the student would have to learn the same piano piece totally by him/herself, and present it to the teacher at the end. We talked about the three different ways to evaluate performance, which are: presentation, portfolio, projects.While reading about assessment bias, we came to the conclusion that this is more important than we think it is. Remembering what we have learned about assessment bias during child development class, we all know how this problem really happens, more often than we can image. The teacher wouldn't be fair grading his students and he would only look at results as he wanted to.