FIAE Chapter Four

In this chapter, the main focus was on different alternatives that teachers can use for assessment that go beyond big projects or tests and quizzes. There are three major examples used in this chapter, which the author then goes into detail, explaining why all of these examples would be a good form of assessment in the classroom.  The three different kinds of assessment talked about in this chapter are portfolios, where students pick out work that they want to showcase to show that they understand the material and have mastered the skill, rubrics, where students have to hit certain points in order to get the full credit of the assignment or unit and student self assessment, where students are given the opportunity to reflect on their own learning and assess how they believe they’ve done learning the skill.

I definitely can see myself using all of these different forms of assessment in the classroom and I like how all of them can be used for nearly every subject and don’t have limits because of the content area. I also really liked how more than one of the forms of assessment as students to look back at their own learning, whether it be to reflect on how they believe they understood the unit and skill or in looking back at old assignments to pick out ones they believe showcase their skill level the best.

I think that the most important form of assessment is the one that asks students to reflect on their own work, because I think that students know their own learning better than anyone. Asking students to reflect and using their own reflection of their work to come up with their grade is, in my opinion, one of the most effective ways to assess students.