Unit 1- Assessment in the Classroom Revisited
In this Unit, the exploration activity, together with the learning of two scholarly articles gave me a great overview of the definition of educational assessment , the purposes of assessment, as well as the role of assessment in the education culture. It is important to know that assessments provide educators with both objective and subjective data in order to determine student progress and skill competence. The information collected from assessments not only help educators plan the next step instructions, but also help other stakeholders such as districts to determine where to distribute money or policy makers in terms of the efficacy of education. A very interesting idea I have learned from the exploration activity is when Dr. William indicates that in effective assessments, the retrieval practice together with the hypercorrection effect is very beneficial for long-term learning. This is very true when it comes with the law of learning. When we first learn about...