EDUC 5440 - Assessment and Evaluation

“You do wonderful work.” “You inspire me.” “I admire your work ethic and your talent.” Similar to reciting affirmations, receiving positive feedback makes you feel good, doesn’t it? And we don’t even know each other. When bosses give employees specific, meaningful feedback, the resulting impact can completely change someone’s attitude or even alter the course of their career. Employee feedback, as simple as it is, has the power to unlock someone’s full potential. Using reward platforms can amplify your team members’ strengths and talents through positive reinforcement...

As we are ending this course, please reflect on the course’s information: Is there one type of assessment that has been most useful for your practice in the classroom if you are not practicing as yet, which will be useful as you start your teaching career. This activity will be assessed by your instructor using this rubric. Assessment and Evaluation Education Department, University of the People EDUC 5440 Portfolio Activity Unit 8 Dr. Sherry Birdwell August 08, 2023 Assessment is the systematic basis for making inferences about the learning and development of students...

In ‘fair assessment’fair does not mean equal, it means EQUITABLE. In order to better understand this, please read ‘Equity forEnglish-language learners’, the article is included in this Unit’s Reading List. If you are a practicing teacher please reflect on your assessment practice and analyze whether it has been equitable and in whatway was it equitable. If you are not a practicing teacher, as yet, reflect on your experience as an assessee and analyze whether your assessments werefair and equitable...

For this assignment, refer to the two articles listed in this weeks reading assignment, ‘Teacher professional learning communities: going beyond contrived congeniality toward challenging debate and collegial learning and professional growth’ and ‘Using student assessment to improve teaching’. Then, write a short paper on ‘teacher reflective practice’ addressing the following: Examine the value of reflecting on a teaching practice If you are part of a Professional Learning Community (PLC) at your school, analyze the benefits it has provided you as a teacher...

If you have not already done so, take a moment to set up an Evernote account for your Practice and Research Portfolio and complete thefollowing: Log into your Evernote account Choose one artifact from the course to add to the research component of your Research and Practice Portfolio. Choose one artifact from this course to add to the practice component of your Research and Practice Portfolio. Once you have entered the artifacts in your Research and Practice Portfolio, take a screenshot of each,...

Choose one: Practicing teachers: Out of all the formative assessments you utilize in your classroom, which ones have improved your teaching practice? Pleaseanalyze the reasons for this improvement. Non-practicing teachers: Please examine whether your Pre-Service Teacher Education made you ‘assessment literate’, i.e. gave you the ability to createand use valid and reliable assessments as a classroom teacher in order to facilitate, promote, motivate and communicatestudent learning. After you respond...