Ed psych 401

Formal- If I tell all the students that every Tuesday we will have a spelling test and Tuesday rolls around and all the scores are low, I could assess that what I am doing is not working. Maybe I could move the test to Friday so that the  students would have all week to prepare instead of the weekend and one day because some students might not get to study over the weekend.

Informal-If there was a student in class that wore dirty clothes or the same clothes almost everyday, one might assess that their parents cannot afford newer clothes or they may just not have a washing machine, but you could tell by looking at the whole classroom whose parents care about what their child is wearing to school everyday. Maybe I could schedule a meeting with the parents and ask if there is anything I can help with at home or suggest a program that the family may qualify for that could help with children's clothes. 

Traditional- If the children have been told at the end of each chapter there will be a math quiz, and each quiz has to be passed before you go on to the next chapter. This will measure their knowledge and skills of the material to see if they can move on to the next chapter or not.

Authentic-If I were to come up with an assignment and tell the students that they need to plan a dinner party. They would need to come up with invitations, four recipes for six people with ingredients and directions, recipes for three or twelve people with ingredients, and one recipe with ingredients for 30 people. This could be a nice introduction to fractions, teach the children recipes, and how to plan and invite people to a dinner party. I would grade the student projects on creativity and neatness and make sure that they met all the requirements in the rubric. 

Criterion-referenced- If I were to give my students a quiz on literature about chapters that they were supposed to read in the book I would find out who really read the material and who really did not read the material just by their answers. 

Norm-referenced-If I were to give my students a quiz on literature about chapters that they were supposed to read in the book I would find out who really read the material and who really did not read the material just by their answers. I would now know who the readers in the class were and who did not read at all by comparing all their answers/grades on the quiz with each others.

Paper-pencil-If I were to give my students a vocabulary quiz, I would sound out each word and have them write it down on a piece of paper. Then the students would turn their vocabulary quizzes into me,  I would grade them, then I could assess which children new how to spell which words.

Performance-If I were to assign my students to do a history presentation I would have them pick a person in history, dress up like that person, and explain in great detail their life story and their contributions to society. I could then assess which children worked really hard on the presentation and which children did not do very much research on their person by the quality and creativeness of their presentation.

Standardized- At the end of each year I would have to give my classroom a standardized test called the TCAP. This test would evaluate what each child learned that year in math, science, writing, social studies and english. This test also sometimes determines if the child fails or passes the grade for that year.

Teacher-developed- At the beginning of the year I would give my students a test on math, science, writing, social studies, and english to see what they remember from last year. This will allow me to see where each student is on a scale to see where we may need to do more work for that school year. I would give them the exact same test in the middle of the school year to see their improvements. This will allow me to, again, see exactly where each student is and see what we need to make the most room for before the school year is over. Then I would give them the exact same test one more time before the end of the year and hopefully all the students have made improvements throughout the year if I did my job right.