ELED-41000 Classroom Assessment and Intervention

This course is designed to prepare teacher candidates to use formal and informal assessment strategies to plan instruction, assess instruction and make next-step instructional decisions that promote continuous the intellectual, social-emotional and physical development of all elementary students. Candidates will learn to use assessment for instructional purposes by developing biased free tests, assignments that produce authentic data that can be used to enhance instruction, learn about communicating informative feedback to students and developing clear and useful rubrics. Candidates will learn to use a variety of formal and informal assessments (e.g., observation, teacher made tests, student self-assessment, peer feedback and standardized tests) as well as how to teach students test taking skills, interpret the results of standardized tests for parents and collaborate with colleagues to accommodate the needs of students with exceptionalities. Statistical concepts related to tests such as measures of central tendency, measures of variability, norm and criterion reference tests, validity, reliability, and correlation coefficients will be covered.

Credits

3