EDE 662 - Planning & Assessment: Elementary

3 credit(s)
This course provides practicum level teacher candidates with an opportunity to integrate their prior understanding and knowledge of students, content, and pedagogy into an application mode through developing skills in on-going and continuous authentic assessment. This course will focus on the concepts and processes of classroom assessment practices essential to document student learning and to inform future instructional planning. Refining intended curricular learning outcomes and the sequencing/integration of curriculum will also be addressed. You will learn and understand the differences of assessment for learning and assessment of learning. You will explore multifaceted elements of the assessment including teaching for understanding, report cards, portfolios, rubrics, and using protocols for looking at student work and teacher work. You will reflect on how mandated state and national tests impact student learning, and how practices in curriculum and instruction prepare students for standardized testing. Measurement skills, including reliability, validity, as well as statistical tools necessary for interpretation of test results, will be explored. The intended outcome of the course is that you will have gained an understanding of the natural connections between teaching, learning, documentation, all assessment, and reflective practice. Through your work with National and State Standards, you will deepen your content skill knowledge. Diversity and cultural sensitivity issues will also be explored. Some field experience is required for you to gather data from classrooms to assist in understanding of student assessment.

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