Assessment

Assessment is the evaluation of something and when you're talking in terms of students in the classroom you usually refer to tests, quizzes, and standardized tests when assessing the students knowledge of a certain subject. As a student I've always found tests to be much more difficult for me than assignments where I have time to gather materials and resources and plan out a great project. I found the Classroom Assessment Techniques video to be really informative and resourceful. The When Assessment Goes Wrong video was kind of creepy but in reality that is a great way to express what some students go through when taking a test and how hopeless they feel when they've become so stressed that they just can't take it anymore. What really took me back was the 1620 video! Wow I can't believe that students take that many tests over their careers from K-12. Although testing may seem like a good way to assess students, and I'm not saying I don't believe in them or that we should get rid of them altogether, because I do believe standardized testing to a point is a great idea, I believe that some students learn differently, so why should they all be tested the same? If you're a hands on learner and you learned to do an experiment through actually performing the experiment, why should you be asked to be tested the same way, on paper, as another student who learned the experiment through reading the text book?

Introduction

Hello! For those of you who don't know me my name is Christine De Medici and I'm a Junior here at Saint Peter's. What initially drew me to SPC was the small classroom sizes and the intimate atmosphere. I enjoy walking around campus and seeing a handful of familiar places everywhere I look. I'm an Elementary Education and English Literature major and I hope to teach middle school english. I grew up in North Arlington which is about 15-20 minutes from Jersey City, but in my Junior year of high school I moved to Point Pleasant where I still currently live. In addition to school I work at a daycare as an Assistant Teacher and I'm a member of the SPC Women's Soccer Team. I've always loved being a student and when it came time to decide what I wanted to do in the future, school was inevitably the way to go. If I could be a student forever, I would because I love learning and I love being in the classroom. And that's how I decided to go into Education!

Introduction

This is the first post on my blog for my Ed 301 Tests and Measurements class. I'm excited to be taking this online course because I enjoyed my previous online course which was slightly different in that we used the blackboard discussion board to post our work rather than a blog, so I'm excited to be using a blog for this course.