Chapter 6

Chapter 6 talks about the relationship between learning and assessment. I like how the book calls it two sides of the coin, they both needs to be present for it to be a coin. And learning and assessment need to be present for a student to learn. Teachers should know that each student have a different type of assessment. Assessment is the process of gathering information about how much the student has learned. I like the three questions the books gives to ask when we are going to make a lesson for the students. Where are students trying to go? Where are students now? How are students going to get there?
Diagnostic assessment is like pre-assessment, teachers can use to find out how much the students know before staring a lesson. Formative Assessment lets us gather information on the students during the lesson this helps to see if the students’ understand the content. Summative Assessment comes after the instruction has taken place, it shows teachers the evidence if learning has or has not taken place.
I like the checklist provided in the book to keep track of students performance because if teachers don’t know how the student performs then how will we now if improvement is existing.