Sentences with phrase «informal assessments about»

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As you sit down to plan your next assessment, whether formal or informal, short - term or long - term, think about the message you are sending your students.

An informal survey of students about Oregon's online testing system shows they find computer - based testing faster and more enjoyable than the paper - and - pencil variety, and they report feeling that they perform better on computerized assessments than on traditional tests.

The field continues to be dominated by twentieth century introductory textbook concepts, including such dichotomies as formative versus summative assessment, criterion - referenced versus norm - referenced testing, quantitative versus qualitative assessment, informal versus formal assessment — distinctions that often hamper rather than promote clear thinking about assessment.

However, among these teacher leaders, what was perceived as lesson planning varied from informal conversations about lessons to designing assessments to gauge the degree to which a lesson achieved its instructional goals.

These informal assessment opportunities provide nuggets of information that can be powerful in helping teachers make decisions about how to individualize, differentiate, and personalize instruction and organize mathematics and other classes.

I think what's happened with the formative assessment work is that people have said, «Let's just find out where they are and let's get informal feedback about what they know, what they don't know.»

Yet, if teachers are to learn about their students» individual needs, interests, and strengths, then they must know how to create discussion questions, math problems, quizzes, and informal assessments that will generate that information.

In sum, this study demonstrates that when schools using a systematic, curriculum - embedded performance assessment make an effort to keep parents informed about the assessment, and when consistent informal communications between parents and teachers take place, parental reactions to performance assessment can be very positive.

The great thing about informal assessments is they help us gauge students» understanding during the learning process instead of after.

Some of these decisions may not be regarded as «assessment» in a traditional sense, but they illustrate how teachers use their informal knowledge about children to guide their classroom instruction.

In a family - centred approach to services, assessment and treatment are guided by the ecological context of the family, incorporating information about formal and informal community supports (Winters and Metz 2009; Winters and Pumariega 2007).