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Assessment- Blog Post #5

I was looking at the smarter balanced website and I'm glad that testing has improved since I was in high school. I remember having to do multiple things throughout the school year only for things to be halted for a week or two to focus on the upcoming WASL test at the time. It made it seem like what we were doing during the school year didn't really matter because there were specific ways of answering test questions that were never covered. And that's what we would spend our time doing.

From the handout, I really liked the section that talks about the impact of zeros. This is why I personally don't like grades because many students associate their self worth around grades instead of it just being a tool to show how well they know the material. As a teacher of course I'm going to keep this in mind when grading. I don't want to make students feel like they are way behind and can't catch up. Then they will just give up. The section about homework also had me thinking about ways to engage my students to do work outside of class that won't be graded. I think it will depend on my class and what their needs are, so I will need to pay attention to that.

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