Chapter 10 - Assessment Style

Pick two types of assessment and explain how they work, and  why you would choose these assessment styles over others.

I think that in my elementary classroom I will use Peer Assessment and Self-Assessment.  I think that peer feedback can be very helpful to raise the effort and work that a student will put intot the work.  I think that if students are also given the chance to rework their assignment after the assessment then they can incorporate their peer's ideas into their work.  These ideas may have sparked something to improve their assignment that they hadn't thought of before.  I think that self-assessment would be very benefical for students to learn.  There was a girl in the third grade class I was volunteering in last semester and she would always raise her hand to see if her answer was correct or her ideas were expanded on enough.  I think that students like her would be helped greatly by learning to evaluate their own work and assess themselves internally, without always deferring to the teacher.

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What is the difference between searching and researching?

Searching is a relatively new thing, according to Prensky, less than ten years old (Prensky, 2005, p. 2). This is in contrast to research which has had a long and important history is education "and was established for the purpose of determining the 'quality' of information" (Prensky, 2005, p. 3). Other than that I believe that searching in considered an informal, less academic way of finding information. Researching has the connotations of taking all the information and condensing or filtering through it to back up your own ideas, instead of trying to searching for an answers.

How might you use cell phones?

I think that students could use cell phones to learn about anything. I can really see it being used for a current events class, finding out the latest information on politics or entertainment media. How could cell phones be used in an elementary school? Maybe polling, like we did in class with the kids grouped in 3s or 4s. I know that even students in elementary schools have phones, I was in a third grade class and for the testing there were at least 7 phones that were returned to the students at the end of the day.

Which game program might you like to use?

I think that I would like to use crossword to help students learn their weekly spelling words and their meanings. I think that Missing Letter would also be a fun way for students to see how words are related to each other. Sentence Unscramble would be a great game for students to work on grammar without sitting through long lessons with the teacher at the front of the classroom.

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