As a teacher, you want your classroom assessment practices to help students learn classroom subject matter more effectively. Describe three strategies you can use to make your assessment instruments valuable learning tools for students

What will be an ideal response?


Examples of assessment practices that facilitate learning are these (the response should include three of these or equally justifiable strategies):
• Give a pretest to determine an appropriate place to begin instruction and/or identify students' current misconceptions about the topic of a lesson.
• Use tasks that assess meaningful learning rather than rote learning.
• Focus assessment on important objectives rather than trivial details.
• Use tasks that require complex cognitive processes.
• Use authentic assessment to promote connections between classroom subject matter and real-world contexts.
• Use assessment results to determine which content areas need additional coverage and which student behaviors need additional practice.
• Involve students in the assessment process (e.g., solicit their input about appropriate scoring criteria) in order to promote self-regulation.
• Provide concrete feedback about the strengths and weaknesses of students' performance.

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