Student assessment Strategies

Student Assessment

Strategies

Source: jstor.org  "The Clearing House" Vol. 73, No. 4   2000.

This article speaks on behalf of the current push by government to mandate standards and raise student achievement by incorporating student assessment. School districts are faced with establishing appropriate student standards for performance in education. Assessment is used to help obtain school goals and student learning. Standards od assessment do the following: 1. They delineate what nearly all students should learn, not just what they should be taught. 2. They establish more challenging norms for acceptable levels of student performance. 3. They ensure all classrooms across all schools in a local system, teachers apply expectations. 4. They hold school systems accountable, as well as teachers, administration, and students.

I believe assessment is very important for student learning and achievement. It is a measuring tool that schools need to have to ensure student learning has taken place. I don;t believe that every assignment needs to have a rubric, rather some other type of measuring device, that you know student learning has taken place. It could be simple feedback from the students, questions, or formative and summative assessments. I believe that districts should most definitely hold their students accountable for learning. it is important to set the achievement bar high for all students...even those students who don't like attending school.