Chapter 8:
This chapter discusses effective assessment and how to create it in your own classroom. Wormeli quotes Jay McTighe who said that assessment should promote learning, not just measure it. He demonstrates this by describing a situation when he assessed a student’s musical performance instead of assessing the student in a standard fashion. Wormeli has eight suggestions that teachers should keep in mind when grading; these suggestions are: defining clear goals, rigorous and motivating assessment, focusing on essential knowledge, using multiple disciplines, valid indicator of student’s knowledge, source of reliable information, using various formats, and easy to grade. Defining clear goals is important because then students are aware of what they are working towards so they aren’t surprised later on at the end of the unit. He suggests even going so far as to give students a copy of the test so they know what to prepare for. Wormeli suggests that assessment should be rigorous and motivating because students will put in more effort then they would for a standard assessment.
I liked this chapter because whenever I’m creating a lesson I always stumble when I get to the assessment part because I’m not quite sure what to do. I always hated worksheets so I like trying to find creative ways to assess students so that students can express their knowledge in a way that suits them. In my practicum I had to do a multi-genre paper for my Lit professor and it was so amazing! My topic was the Great Depression and I presented it in a letter, newspaper article, menu, and various other ways. I thought that was the best thing in the world and ended up doing it with my students; which didn’t exactly work, but I had the best of intentions. Overall, I really liked this chapter because it gave me a lot of ideas that I can use in my own classroom.
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