Chapter 8: Effective Assessment

This chapter was about assessment. The basic point of assessment is to promote learning not to just measure it. There are two types of assessment formative and summative. This chapter mostly talks about summative. The first point made is to make sure the assessment has something to do with the content you are teaching. This may seem like an unnecessary comment but I have had plenty of tests that had nothing to do with anything that was covered in class. The assessment should have clear goals, focus on essential knowledge, incorporate multiple disciplines, be a valid indicator of students' knowledge, use different templates, and be easy to grade.

This really just drives home the point that assessments that do not accurately express the student's knowledge of the content is worthless. The teacher in the book talked about organizing the students grades in the book not by assignments but by the standards.