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Assessing and Evaluating Students' Learning

The online article for today didn’t make much sense to me so I chose to write on the handout that we got this week instead because there were quite a few things that caught my eye when reading it. It starts out with talking about objective testing and how this teacher was choosing to use it because it was what her students were “used to” and “comfortable with” and what they “liked”. On one hand, I get it. But then I really started thinking about it and I think that it is important to test and assess students in many different ways. Not only does it make students learn how to show what they know in different ways, but it also allows those 4 or 5 students who don’t like the objective tests to excel in different ways. I think that giving students a choice of how they want to show what they have learned is really important too. I plan to always offer 2 different assessments each time, allowing the students to choose which they would like to do. I never was a student who could do well on tests, but if I was allowed to write a paper, or put together some sort of project that proved my knowledge, then I kicked butt. Not every student is the same and so I think that it is important to allow students to thrive and take charge with their own learning. If they can show me that they know what they needed to know and can meet all the expectations that were laid out for them, then why should I care if it was them choosing the right multiple choice answer or explaining it to me in a well thought out essay?? It is my job as a teacher to get them there and I always encourage other teachers to give their students the same sort of options when it comes to evaluating what your kiddos know. 

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