Blog Post 2-Growing Success and Assessment

Assessment

Growing success the Kindergarten Addendum states that there are seven fundamental principles when it comes to assessment. It stresses that assessment should be fair and equitable for all students, it supports all students including those with special education needs, are carefully planned to relate to curriculum expectations, are communicated to both students and parents, are ongoing and varied in nature and help students develop their self-assessment skills to enable them to assess their own learning. Growing Success the kindergarten addendum and Growing Success have both helped me gain a better understanding of how to be conscious of following all of these criteria.

Evaluation and assessment must be fair and equal for all students so reading these documents has put an emphasis on how to be sure to be fair to all students and treat every student equally. each and every student needs to be asses according to their individual needs and as educators, I feel that it is mandatory to ensure we are putting as much effort into student assessment and evaluation as they are when they are submitting their work.

One thing we have learned over the last 11 weeks is that there are 3 different types of assessment, Assessment As Learning, Assessment For Learning and Assessment Of Learning. These are all different levels in which you will be assessing your students. What are they? Good question...

Assessment As Learning

In assessment as learning, students are active contributors. students are assessing themselves as they are learning. 

Assessment For Learning

This is a formative and diagnostic form of assessment. We are assessing something that can be changed if modifications needs to be made based on students levels of understanding. 

Assessment Of Learning

This form of assessment is summative. It is based on using exit cards from a lesson for example, to gain an understand of what students learned during the lesson. 

Reading the Growing Success documents has helped me become much more confident in my abilities to assess students and to know that there are many documents available to help with guidelines and understanding of certain areas if I am having trouble. 

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