“Classroom assessments that serve as meaningful sources of information don’t surprise students.” (Guskey, 2003)  This quote immediately jumped out to me as both a teacher and a learner. As a learner not knowing what would be on an assessment or not knowing how I would be assessed frequently added to the stress of exams and…

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References Caines, J., L. Bridglall, B., & Chatterji, M. (2014). Understanding validity and fairness issues in high-stakes individual testing situations. Quality assurance in education. Hubley, A. M., & Zumbo, B. D. (1996). A Dialectic on Validity: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going. The Journal of general psychology.

After viewing the course materials for this section I chose 5 characteristics of good assessment to create an infographic. My 5 characteristics combine information from multiple sources including reading classmate’s discussion board posts to create my own overview. One of the ideas that keeps coming back to me in this module is are we assessing…

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https://www.edutopia.org/article/making-assessments-equitable-multilingual-students One of my biggest challenges I find each year when completing our FSA tests is to make it equitable for my ELL students who have the skills and knowledge but not the vocabulary. After reading the linked article form July 2023 I found several strategies that test writers could easily implement when creating LSAs…

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The first thing that comes to mind for me is anxiety, I was a very anxious test taker through my undergraduate degree despite having the skills and knowledge to do well on the test and sufficient preparation for exams. When connecting with students about their test anxiety and helping them develop strategies to adapt and…

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Like many teachers I think I have several miss understandings when discussing large scale assessments (LSAs), we are given minimal training on them and how they are developed unless we seek the knowledge ourselves and are also given very minimal training on how to administer them and interpret the results. If we are even given…

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