Provide an overview of assessment in your setting to incoming board members.
Overview
Construct a 10 slide presentation in which you provide an overview of assessment in your setting to incoming board members.
This assignments test your knowledge of the materials presented in this course, along with your ability to organize your thinking and effectively present the information to your identified audience.
Scenario
In your role as curriculum coordinator of your district or organization, your responsibilities include all things related to curriculum instruction and assessment. Your district has recently had an election and there are now two new board members who have been asking about what tests the district students are taking both in the classroom and outside, including all the state, national, college entrance exams, etc.
You have been asked to develop a PowerPoint presentation that provides an overview of the various tests that students in the district take along with their purposes, the role that assessment (including grading) plays in education today, and recommendations you would like to make about the district assessment program. Keeping your audience in mind, do this by developing a presentation based on what currently exists in your district or organization at this time.
Instructions
Create a 10 slide presentation with speaker notes in which you do the following:
● Analyze the purposes of assessment in general using the literature to support your analysis.
● Analyze the relationship between standards, assessment, curriculum, and instruction in planning classroom activities.
● Describe the variety of assessments that might be used within your organization, including at the classroom level.
● Summarize the current reporting practices of assessment results through grading.
● Assess some of the new thinking on issues of fairness related to grading.
● Recommend a district strategy for continually strengthening the connection between curriculum, instruction, and assessment to more effectively support student learning.
Use supporting evidence and citations where appropriate, formatted according to APA style.
Additional Requirements
Organize your presentation using the following subheadings:
● Title of your presentation.
● The purpose of assessments in education.
● Types of tests used in education today.
● Relationship between standards, assessment, curriculum, and instruction.
● Classroom assessment practices.
● Reporting assessment results.
● Recommendations.
● References.
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