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What and How to Assess
  • Merryellen Towey Schulz, Ph.D.
  • College of Saint Mary
  • EDU 312
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WHAT
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PLAN!
  • Consider decisions at issue PRIOR to creating assessment.
  • Design instructional objectives.
    • Broad
    • Measurable
  • Cognitive, Affective, Psychomotor



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ASSESSMENT TARGETS
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Standards
  • Content
    • Knowledge
    • Skills


    • (NCLB academic content standards)
    • Most useful to classroom teachers
  • Performance
    • Level of proficiency


    • (NCLB academic achievement standards)
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NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress)
  • Resource for planning
  • Grades 4, 8, 12
  • Levels
    • Advanced
    • Proficient
    • Basic
    • Below basic

  • Challenging
  • Aligned


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HOW
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TYPES
  • Norm-referenced


  • Selected-response



  • Criterion-referenced


  • Constructed response
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Focus..
  • …less on ease of scoring and more on the nature of the score-based inference you wish to make.
  • Popham p. 110
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