FIAE Reflections: Chapter 3

This chapter reviews the ways that assessment can be used to further student mastery. The comparison that is made in the chapter is that assessment should be more like a physical than an autopsy. In other words it should be used all through the learning process to help direct learning rather than being simply a way to keep score of success or failure. There are three kinds of assessments: pre-assessment, formative assessment, and summative assessments. Assessments are most useful when they are available to the student, documents real learning, and focuses on enduring and essential content and skills (a.k.a. KUD). I really got a better idea of how to design assessments to give me useful information about my students’ level of understanding through the examples and concepts described here.