Designing Good Assessment

Questions

Why do we assess?

What sort of assessment strategies do we use?

• To get information about what students have learned

• To get information to improve teaching and learning

Tests, tests, tests, more tests,

Why do we assess?

What sort of assessment strategies do we use?

• To get information about what students have learned

• To get information to improve teaching and learning

Essays, posters, demonstrations, role plays, interviews, movies, Powerpoints, etc. ……

Let us do a short test

Bloom’s Taxonomy

1. Which countries do these people come from, and what is their position there?

a) Aung San Su Kyib) Julia Gillard c) David Campbelld) Benigno Aquino IIIe) Nelson Mandela

Knowledge

Bloom’s Taxonomy

2. What has happened in Egypt in the past two weeks, and why?

Comprehension

Bloom’s Taxonomy

3. What do you think would happen in Indonesia if SBY declared a state of emergency, and got the army to control everything? Why?

Application

Bloom’s Taxonomy

4. There have been demonstrations in other Middle East and African countries. What aspects do they have in common?

Analysis

Bloom’s Taxonomy

5. Briefly describe the perfect government system for Indonesia.

Synthesis

Bloom’s Taxonomy

6. Answer this question on the other side of the paper: If you were asked to compare Indonesia’s government with China’s, what criteria would you use? Why?

Evaluation

What did we notice?

- In your group

- Share

Your turn

- At your table, decide on a topic that one of you is teaching

6 Thinking Hats

- Develop 6 questions for the topic, appropriate to the class. One question for each hat

- Share

You can do this with

• Bloom• 6 Thinking Hats• PYP Concepts• VAK• Multiple Intelligences• Thinking Keys• ???

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