Assessment in the Classroom

Assessment. The evaluation or estimation of the ability of someone. To me assessment just means a way to check someone's understanding of a concept or lesson. When it comes to assessment, I think that it should be done at the very end of a topic learned such as a test or a culminating activity and also should as be done after every lesson as well to gage how well of an understanding your class has by using items such as exit tickets. When it comes to grading I do not think that the every day assessments should be graded but at the end of the topic covered there should be some kind of grade pinned to it.

My impression on the tool EduCanon is that I really like that you can see where the students fell and which problems students struggled with. And my impression on the tool PealDeck is that I enjoyed that you can see answers and read them but you cannot see who said it. This can be both a positive and a negative. This is a positive because students feel comfortable stating their answer because you can't see their name but this is a negative because as a teacher you will not know which student is actually struggling. Something else that I liked about PearlDeck is that there are more than one use for this tool. There are simple yes/no answers, agree/disagree, and short answer.These are both good assessment tools that you can use at the end of week or every other day to recap with students.




Something striking in the video from Scott was that more educators knew what a summative assessment was but not formative. For me, when I was in my undergrad I always forgot what summative assessment was, I knew that it gathered information but I always forgot when summative assessment should be used. Now I understand that a summative assessment sums up the lesson you have taught usually with some kind of test. And most importantly is something that you do at the end to see how much information your students understood.


Formative assessments should be done throughout your lessons to see how well your students are following along such as doing thumbs up/down (in an elemenatary school) or exit tickets for the older grades. You could even use tools I listed above or onces such as Kahoot or Plicker. Keeping my PLN network up-to-date and connecting with other educators will help me to continue to be informed and update on the different types of tools to use and which are good for specific assessments.