Fairness in Assessment & Learning Targets

First I want to start with talking about fairness in assessment. The most influential statement I took from this chapter was that assessment should be fair to students from all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrouns, as well as students with disabilities.

As far as learning targets go, I discovered that as a teacher you can assess the same learning targets in several different ways, because there are a number of different learning targets. A general learning target is a statement of an expected learning outcome that is derived from an educational goal. A specific learning target is a clear statement about what students are to achieve at the end of a unit of instruction. And then of course, there are mastery learning targets which are statements of what students can do at the end of instruction. I added these to my blog because I believe that they're important and need to be identified.