Assessment Reflection Essay examples

As I reflect on my past assessment process, I realized how much my assessments have changed over the years. In my early years, I used tests for informational recall as my assessments. I felt these were appropriate guidelines in which I needed to follow in order to substantiate a student's grade. Every assignment or tests was given a point value and then based on the amount of points, a grade was given. Every student's assessment was exactly the same, and the assessments did not contain any subjectivity. I felt confident in giving the grade based on a valid point system. However reflecting back, I see that I did not include any performance–based assessments or individual learning styles in my early assessment. I also did not take...show more content...

Part of my assessment philosophy is to assess students on a daily basis which also includes their reaction to my class. Students come to school with so much baggage that if you only chose one day a week, or four or five times a marking period to assess them, chances are, they may be having a bad day. Therefore, these students may not demonstrate their true ability if given only a few attempts during the marking period. Assessment needs to be a continuous process throughout the marking period. Everyday my students are given an opportunity to demonstrate their learning whether it is an observation, a quick answer or a one–on–one discussion or a group project. My assessments are consistent, flexible and achievable. I adhere to the deadlines that I give my students as part of my assessment process. I want to infuse in my students that the world has deadlines, and you must be prepared to meet them.

Assessment for many students means failure instead of demonstrating what you know. Too many students walk away from a test, a science lab, or any other learning experience and feel as if they have failed. Students should walk away from these experiences with a feeling of curiosity. If assessments are correctly used, students would want to experiment more and take additional risks knowing that the end result would be a feeling of achievement instead of failure. Assessments

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South Hills High School, AP English and Composition. In the early weeks of this class we learned the importance of what a writer is capable of doing if using the correct strategies. For example, Martin L. King repeated and emphasized the importance of "I have a dream" to make his speech more memorable and get his point through his audience. We further learned Aristotle's rhetorical triangle and the strategies that each point was tied down with. In this paper, I will demonstrate that I have entered a discourse community of AP English by indicating the knowledge I have acquired throughout the 9 months of this course, effectively using rhetorical strategies, and convincing other members to join this discourse community. I walked into a new classroom, new setting, new teacher, unfamiliar students. It's nerve wrecking deciding where to sit and who to sit with. As I observed the students seated in the classroom, I made assumptions upon their academic respect. I did not want to sit next to a student that did not care for their studies. As I targeted the first student, he was a male and was too entertained into his mobile device with earphones plugged into his ears. I had a presumption that this individual was not eager for class to start since he didn't even have a pen or paper out. However, as I continued to observe the remaining portion of the classroom, I came across a former friend of mine. Her name was April and we had always had the same English class together so I wasn't

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