FS 5:

Learning Assessment Strategies

FORM 1 for FS 5 (For Field Study Student and Mentor)

Documenting and Assessing Student Progress

1. List the procedures you follow to correct different types of student work (e.g., daily papers, homework, tests, projects, etc.)

2. List the methods you use to record student progress (e.g., gradebook, anecdotal notes, progress charts, etc.)

3. List any time-saving tips you have discovered for correcting papers or recording information.

4. What is your schools policy for grading and maintaining student records? Permanent record folders? Subject-related progress charts?

FORM 2 for FS 5 (For Field Study Student and Field Study Teacher) Assessing Student Activities: Product vs. Process Many classrooms are using an eclectic approach that involves both the process and the product. Discuss how you assess your students.

SHARE YOUR PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR THE FOLLOWING:

1. How do you score student papers, projects, and written assignments? Are there certain procedures to follow? Explain.

2. When scoring written assignments or student projects using a holistic rubric, how do you set criteria? What do you look for? How is it different from traditional scoring of written assignments and student projects?

3. How do you assess cooperative learning projects? Should these be assessed?

4. How do you assess laboratory work, experiential projects, performances, outcomebased learning, extra credit or enrichment work?

5. How can a variety of assessment strategies co-exist in one classroom? What do students need to know before a teacher uses various assessment strategies?

FORM 3 for FS 5 (For Field Study Teacher and Student)

PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT
1. What is portfolio assessment?

2. How is it different from traditional assessment?

Traditional

Portfolio

3. What are the advantages of portfolio assessment?

4. What are the disadvantages of portfolio assessment?

5. What questions do you have about portfolio assessment?

FORM 4 for FS 5 (For Field Study Student and Faculty)

1. Names of standardized tests:

2. When are the tests given and how are these results filed? Who has access to these records?

3. When low achievers are given separate files or different tests, make sure your students know what those are and their purposes. If students are exempted from a test, explain why they are exempted from the test and what they do in lieu of the test.

4. Ask the field study students to list the limitations of a standardized test.

FORM 5 for FS 5 TEACHER REFLECTION JOURNAL ENTRY: What is the most important thing my field study student should understand about assessment? Reflective Questions: 1. What has been the most difficult part of the discussion about assessment?

2. What have I learned from my field study students about assessment?

3. How has this conversation helped me as a teacher?

FORM 6 for FS 5 STUDENT REFLECTION JOURNAL ENTRY: What have been the most powerful insights for me about student assessment? Reflective Questions: 1. How do the theories I have learned in my subjects relate to the learning environment practice on assessment?

2. What procedures and systems of assessment do I feel best enhance student learning? Why?

3. How can I keep learning about assessment?