The purpose of the evaluation was to create an assessment framework to evaluate program performance, provide recommendations based on stakeholder’s perspectives, and provide a video about the program’s purpose. The evaluation team successfully accomplished those goals by identifying and interviewing stakeholders, by using previous surveys from youth participants, and by using the assessment framework. One of the main challenges the program faced before was keeping track of survey feedback. The evaluation team created a program specific assessment framework to measure how successful the program is. The assessment framework helped the team discover areas that need improvement, areas that work well and were to come up with recommendations for
What other kinds of assessment measures will yield valuable information about his students? (This will depend on the “grade” you choose for Adrian.) a. If Adrian is teaching second grade, he could examine the students AR test scores, and then he will be able to look at how the students score on their AR tests. This will lead to him testing his student’s fluency.
My evaluation of two months employment at TPS/Eugene Elementary was not based on my professional criterion. Instead, it was judged by parents of a group of students who did not want to do their class work and follow class rules. They went to the office making up a bunch of stories about me. I was not informed until my evaluation. I did not know what was going on.
Cassie Davis, a former student at Highland High School in Nunn, Colarado, worked herself strenuously in order to achieve academic excellence. She took every AP and Honors class she could, and in her senior year, while the others students began to relax as the result of their college applications being finished, she hit the books and continued to take classes at the University of Northern Colorado. However, she was punished for her diligence, as her school’s grading system discounted her college credits, and she lost her valedictorian status to a kid who had not taken difficult college courses. She found that she had been cheated, punished for choosing to challenge herself and learn more.
Smarter Balanced Assessment: Pro or Con? Smarter Balanced Assessment, who is it truly assessing, the teachers or the students? Smarter Balanced testing contributes to the teacher’s performance, but is it beneficial or does it have unintended consequences? Students are ultimately grading the teachers by taking these tests and they are not even aware of it. The disadvantages may outweigh the benefits for this topic, but teachers must look past the disadvantages and do what they were meant to do, teach.
Certainly this refers to teaching as well. A teacher is a lifelong learner, thus, by evaluating my teaching I would be able to recognize my strengths and weaknesses, and as a result become better at my profession. One of the aspects of evaluation is a Continuous Professional Development process (evidence 6), which ensures improving the vocational and subject knowledge continuously. One of the responsibilities would be abidance with regulatory requirements, legislation, policies and procedures, and codes of practice.
No one ever said school was easy. It takes quite a bit of hard work and preparation from both the students and teachers. All within a school year there are different homework, assignments, projects, tests, quizzes, presentations and much more to try and fit into an already busy course schedule. To add to that the Education Reform Law of 1993 was introduced to schools, which required that all public school students have to be tested in the subjects of English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science and Technology Engineering. Those set of tests are called Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) and they are meant to measure students performance based on the Massachusetts Curriculum Framework.
Greater confidence in teachers’ judgments and assurance that judgments are consistent within and across schools. Provides useful, dependable information for target setting. Provides information that can shape future professional development needs for teachers. (2.2) Explain the role and use of peer–and self–assessment in the assessment process?
Context and Unit Description For this essay, students will be completing work from the unit titled ‘Place and liveability’, addressing all content and outcome requirements from the Australian Curriculum: 7-10 Geography. The following are examples of what students will be capable of identifying at the completion of the unit: 1) Factors that influence the decisions people make about where to live and their perceptions of the liveability of places (ACHGK043) 2) The influence of accessibility to services and facilities on the liveability of places (ACHGK044) and 3) Reflect on their learning to propose individual and collective action in response to a contemporary geographical challenge, taking account of environmental, economic and social considerations,
World domination. It may simply begin through the depths of an evil scientist, but in reality, standardized tests are the culprit. Standardized Testing: two words that as soon as teachers, their students, and administrators hear this, they fret. The day where all outstanding abilities acquired throughout the year is assessed at once. All this joyful news of how standardized testing supposedly creates miracles of our knowledge, increasing student achievement, may be proven wrong or right, but that is not our deepest concerns.
Currently, students' opinions may get pushed to the back burner unless there is enough repetition of an issue to form a solution. With annual teacher evaluations, the opinion of students can be heard and sorted through in order to solve problems throughout the
Imagine your school switches to a different grading system and you have to do a long term project and present it instead of quizzes, test, and class work. Some schools are switching to the long term project grading instead of traditional grading. The long term grading makes it easier for teachers but, harder for the students. The students would have to work diligently all semester to get it done, and they would have to do it for each of their classes and then present it. Traditional grading is better than long-term project grading because you won't have as much work to do at once, you will be tested on the latest information, and your grade is based on everything in the class.
2:1 Compare the strengths and limitations of assessments of a range of assessment methods with reference to the needs of individual learners. Workplace Observations, question and answer/professional discussions, projects/assignments, portfolios, witness statements. A good assessor will always take into account their learners needs and what particular subject they are studying for prior to confirming with learner type of assessment method to be used. Workplace observations
Should students be able to grade their teachers? Some students may say they don’t care how their teacher teaches, they’re there because they have to be. Some may say the teacher is the instructor they will teach how they want. Others, may say they care greatly about how a teacher teaches because they’re there to learn and that’s their future. I’m one of the ones who wants a good education and cares how a teacher teaches, considering I’m in nursing school.
As a student you are assessed everyday based off of almost anything; involving class participation and behavior to turning in assignments and taking exams. However, teachers don’t usually receive feedback or get assessed by their own students. It’s common for a student to be inclined to be the one to grade their teachers but, some students haven't been given the opportunity to. Students should be able to grade or assess their teachers because it provides incentive for the teacher, assists teachers to improve in areas where they could be lacking, and provides a proper evaluation of their teacher.
