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Welcome to Dr. Carlucci's ED520 Assessment wikispace. Here, you will be able to access resources for our class. If you'd like to learn more about wikipaces, watch the video below:

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What Using Assessment is all about: Father Guido Sarducci: []


 * **Know** ||  **Want to Know**  ||  **What I learned**  ||
 * * Assessment can be BDA a test, lesson, or unit.
 * Can take MANY forms like portfolios, projects, journals, etc.
 * Shows gaps in teacher instruction and/or student learning.
 * Make sure it’s relevant…don’t test just to test!
 * Make a goal or target for what you want students to know…
 * Use our assessments to assess ourselves as teachers.
 * Data from assessments can be used to guide instruction. || * Better understanding of what research is telling us about useful assessments and the best types are currently. (AM)
 * How to administer DI on assessments? How to DI effectively? What are the different types of testing and how to use them and the different ones that work?(CH and DF)
 * What test taking strategies should we model the most in our classrooms? (Think of students who know the content but don’t do well on the test). (DT)
 * How do we help special ed students do well for the test? (DF)
 * How to use assessment efficiently to do quickly– how/when to move on to the next area? (especially with large classrooms) (AR)
 * A better way to keep track of formative assessments –(do we have to document everything? Also, better way to record data -& record keeping as well? (AJ)
 * What do we do with the few kids who just continually bomb summative assessments – how do move on but reach that kid? (ES)