Week 3 IP&T 301

1. An example of a formative assessment would be worksheets, mini quizzes, or other assignments that tests weather student is learning the information that they are learning. A summative assessment would be more like a unit test, which would be used to assess the accumulative knowledge in which a student has learned. I believe that a formative could later be used as a summative because one is just used as a teaching tool while the other assess knowledge.
2. A standardized aptitude test is used to predict what a child is capable of doing while an achievement test is used to see what a child already knows. I believe that an aptitude test is norm-referenced because you are comparing student’s abilities to other students. An achievement test would be criterion-referenced because they are used to see how well your students comprehending and learning compared to other classroom or divisions. But I do believe they can be both norm and criterion.
3. I think that she should be concerned because even if it was just a little bit lower its still lower. I think that they should send out an e-mail asking how they can do better and get new teaching suggestions even if they are at the top of the charts because that way there is always progress. (if your not progressing you are digressing.
4. I think that the information that will effect my teaching the most is how to interpret tests and how to take the information from a test and use it to understand how a child is really doing. I will also use the knowledge that I gained by reading these chapters as a parent because it will be nice to know how tests compare so I can see how my child is doing compared to others and standards.