Overall, this chapter is about assessment and the different ways that it can be met. There are three different types of assessment mentioned in this chapter and they are: summative, diagnostic, and formative. The chapter also mentions a key part in teaching and that is the GRASPS Frame. It also talks about how assessments are used to improve the educators teaching abilities and the student's knowledge of the material. There is also one more thing that my teammates and I have mentioned and when everyone mentions the same thing then you know that it is important. We all mentioned the example of the photo albums versus the snapshots. This important thing found in the chapter tells all of us that as a teacher you need to look at the overall picture and not just one thing. You can't effectively give a grade of a person on one assignment, instead you need to see a persons progression in order to give a grade.
Everyone in the group also mentioned the GRASPS Frame and we all think that it is a good tool to use when you are becoming a teacher. Like I mentioned before we all like the photo album approach and we think that it is the most effective assessment tool that anyone of us have seen yet! You need to look at the bigger picture in order to see progression whether it be a teacher or a coach. Overall effort should be looked at and not one test grade because we are all human and we are entitled to have a bad day at some point. Most of us in the group believe that we need to evaluate our work as a teacher in order to fix our weaknesses so that our student's knowledge can be accurately recorded instead of the lack of teaching on our part. We believe that assessment needs to be enforced on the teacher as well as the student. When making projects we believe that it is important to provide a rubric for the students because we think that when you give students a rubric they know what they need to do instead of guessing at what they need to do. This helps the teacher and the student out in a big way. If the student has to guess then the teacher didn't do there part. The last thing that all of us in the group want to do when we become a teacher is using the three important assessments: summative, diagnostic, and formative. We believe that these three things make up the real teacher and they make the teacher better for preparing our nations children! We all loved this chapter and truly believe that it is a beneficial chapter!
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