A quote that helped clarify it for me is, "The assessment measure students' abilities to connect what they read to their prior knowledge, summarize what they read, draw inferences, make intertextual connections, comprehend vocabulary terms that are explicitly and implicitly defined in the text, and think metacognitively"(page 455).
As I was reading this, I was thinking about how I would implement this into my classroom. I was thinking of doing it at the beginning of the year, so I could understand what I would have to focus on teaching. This is a formative assessment for disciplinary literacy. I think this is important because the assessment addresses the students needs and it is a way to collect the growth of the students comprehension.
My questions for you guys are: what do you think about this form of assessment?, do you see this in your classroom now or in previous classrooms you have been in?, how would you implement this in your classroom?, and do you think it is beneficial?
Feel free to answer one of them or all of them. The choice is yours my friends!
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ReplyDeleteI agree with you that I like the assessment because it is teacher created and I think that is so important to do! Even though it is hard and time consuming I think this assessment is great for guiding teachers. I have never seen it done before, so I am not quite sure how it would look like done in the class! I do think it would be very beneficial, just needing to create the assessment catered to your students.
Hey Becca!
DeleteThanks for the comment! I agree with you it is really hard to understand how it would look like in a classroom when you have never seen it before. Maybe we can be the shift and use it.
Hi Tina,
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said. This is something that I haven't seen implemented before. I think that it is very beneficial. In my classroom now, the only form of assessments that we use are directly from the book. I think that something that is created by the teacher is very different and can measure different things. You can create the assessment to fit your students because you know what works best for them.
Thanks Titi,
Resilda
Hey Resilda!
DeleteThanks for commenting on my post. I have not seen it used in the classroom either. Like you, my teacher takes the assessments from the book which does not allow for any modification. I agree with your statement that the teacher created assessments can be modified to a model that benefits the students.
Hey Tina!
ReplyDeleteI have never seen this in my classrooms either. I think it would be beneficial to do because it would be give a better look at how students are understanding the disciplinary information. It sounds like it could take a lot of work to implement at first because of how it is different from the way students are currently assessed within the disciplines. It could be problematic though if the administration within the school wants the teachers to use the assessments straight from the curriculum the school bought.
- Mae