Identify The Specific Strengths And Weaknesses Of Students
1. To measure academic achievement in all different areas, teachers can (and should) use a wide range of tools. This variety will help teachers determine if students are receiving the proper instruction and making adequate progress toward the learning goals.
2. At the beginning of the school year, screening instruments are usually given to all students. These tools help identify struggling students, but they don’t give specific information about their strengths and weaknesses.
3. Diagnostic assessments identify the specific strengths and weaknesses of students at-risk. This information helps teachers differentiate and modify the general education curriculum for students. Diagnostic assessments can also be used to develop the appropriate IEP …show more content…
The overall functions of assessments change according to the various formats, the specific purposes, and the interpretation and communication of the results.
7. Informal assessments are created or selected by teachers to use in their classrooms on a regular basis to gather data. This data assists in instructional planning, progress monitoring, and feedback.
8. Formal assessments are tests that have been designed and published by test developers, serving as “official” measures of achievement or intelligence. These assessments are given using standardized procedures, so that the results obtained are both reliable and valid.
9. Norm-referenced tests indicate a student’s performance in relation to others who have taken the same test. Criterion-referenced tests show the student’s performance of specific skills in relation to the academic standards and outcomes within the test.
10. Standardized achievement tests provide very useful information about students and their academic skill performances. This being said, there are a few limitations that accompany them. First, they are expensive. Second, they fail to provide information on the continued growth of student achievement and progress because they are, by design, only given at specific times throughout the
2. At the beginning of the school year, screening instruments are usually given to all students. These tools help identify struggling students, but they don’t give specific information about their strengths and weaknesses.
3. Diagnostic assessments identify the specific strengths and weaknesses of students at-risk. This information helps teachers differentiate and modify the general education curriculum for students. Diagnostic assessments can also be used to develop the appropriate IEP …show more content…
The overall functions of assessments change according to the various formats, the specific purposes, and the interpretation and communication of the results.
7. Informal assessments are created or selected by teachers to use in their classrooms on a regular basis to gather data. This data assists in instructional planning, progress monitoring, and feedback.
8. Formal assessments are tests that have been designed and published by test developers, serving as “official” measures of achievement or intelligence. These assessments are given using standardized procedures, so that the results obtained are both reliable and valid.
9. Norm-referenced tests indicate a student’s performance in relation to others who have taken the same test. Criterion-referenced tests show the student’s performance of specific skills in relation to the academic standards and outcomes within the test.
10. Standardized achievement tests provide very useful information about students and their academic skill performances. This being said, there are a few limitations that accompany them. First, they are expensive. Second, they fail to provide information on the continued growth of student achievement and progress because they are, by design, only given at specific times throughout the