In my undergraduate schooling I took stats. I was at the time a secondary math education major so it was required and every day I would dread going to that class. I didn’t know anyone in it and I felt like everyone was smarter than me. As the semester progressed, the thought I had seemed to become more true. I just didn’t get stats, the assignments weren’t what I was used too, this class was so different from my normal math classes, our book was, “Statistics for Dummies,” it didn’t help me out that much. The teacher was something else, at the end of the semester he was telling us that we would have our final on a certain time or day, he concluded with, “Oh, and no one has ever gotten an A on my final, and I take pride in that.” I already had negative feelings toward this professor and that statement just made it worse. It was only the first semester of my sophomore year of college, but I even knew that wasn’t the point of education and assessment. What’s the point of assessment? In my mind then and still is assessment is the teacher evaluating the students on what the student knows. Assessment is not, “How difficult can I make this test?” or “How can I make it a real bell curve?” “The purpose of assessment is really to understand what our students have learned, and to present it to ourselves and our students in a way that we can all see who has learned what” (Loewenstein, S., 2015).
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AuthorI teach grades 7-11 at a small private school in Soldotna. I get to teach a variety of subjects that change every year, this year it's science, history, and math, next year it'll be completely different. Archives
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