Individual: Training Overview

Edith Falcon-Ortega
11-24-14.
CUR 528
Professor Justin Atwood

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Training Overview
What is Assessment?
Assessment is a wide variety of methods that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document
the academic readiness, learning progress, and skill acquisition of students from preschool
through college and adulthood. ("Assessment," 2013) Assessment is meant to measure
specific areas of learning of a student. With it you are able to identify if the student is ready to
perform specific skills and understand the information provided to that student. Assessment are
used to identify the students weaknesses and strengths with the results obtained in the assessment
that the instructor has provided to him or her. The assessment is widely used as an academic
support for the instructors and the staff to identify and improve their programs and teaching.
Three types of assessments used to measure student learning.
Standardized Assessment- This assessment is design and created as a multiple choice format that
can be provided to a large amount of students and be corrected with a computer to gain the
results faster. This is typically the test provided in a Scranton sheet which you fill in the multiple
choice answer in.
Pre-Assessments- These assessments are provided to the students before they take a test or when
they first come in the class. This type of assessment is used by the instructor to view the
knowledge that each student already contains and allows the instructor to use this assessment to
guide themselves on what to educate the students.
Portfolio-based Assessment- This assessment involves the instructor to ask for all of the students
academic work at the end of the year or course to evaluate if the students have met the required
learning standards in order to pass the class or to graduate. These assessments could be speeches,
assignments, presentations and many other examples of work that students have completed.
Why the steps of the assessment process are necessary to drive instruction in an
organization?
The steps of the assessment process are necessary to drive instruction in an organization because
by creating assessment for the students the organization staff and instructors can evaluate their
knowledge and improvements. These assessments will also indicate what they need to work on
and what they need to do to improve to make their organization better for future students. Once
those assessments are completed and they see the results they are able to make an action plan
where it will improve their teachings and eventually their organization will become better and
effectively provide the best education to their students.

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Reference

Assessment. (2013, October 21). Retrieved from http://edglossary.org/assessment/

Why is assessment important?. (2008, July 15). Retrieved from

http://www.edutopia.org/assessment-guide-importance