Chapter 8: Effective Assessment

Chapter 8 is all about how different types of assessment can impact a students grade for that assessment piece/class. A quote that I really liked in this section was by Jay McTighe. He said that "assessment should promote learning, not just measure it." I agree with this 100 percent. When I take quizzes I look at them like they are learning experiences, that they shouldn't count too much because I will use them to learn from my mistakes and master the information from there. If there is a lot of pressure on things like quizzes or checkpoints then students will be less likely to want to learn the information. As a teacher I would like to make quizzes not a thing to be feared, but something that the students can rely on to help them completely understand the material before the summative assessment piece happens.