Teri Peters's List: Assessment

• • definition formative assessment
    
    problem with assessment: "assumption that formative assessment is a particular kind of measurement instrument, rather than a process that is fundamental and indigenous to the practice of teaching and learning"
    
    next-generation assessment system calls formative assessment a more frequent assessment, instead of a process of learning that involves student and teacher--misses the power of true formative assessments
• • effective formative assessment
• • how formative assessment is being treated in next-generation assessment systems
• • feedback:
    --information used to alter the gap between actual level and desired level
    --information is not feedback until it is actively used to close the gap
    --more effective when focus on task and provides students hints or cues rather than offered in the form of praise or comments about performance
    --entity view of intelligence: intelligence/ability fixed...students focus on performance goals
    incremental view of intelligence: believe intelligence/ability can be changed...students focus on learning and mastery
    students with incremental view of intelligence monitor their own learning through self-feedback
    teachers need to help students understand goal, develop skills to make judgments about learning in relation to the standard, establish a repertoire of operational strategies to regulate their own learning
• • the learning process: 
    --construction of schemata
    --social process where learners collaborate with more expert others
    ==two levels of development
    ===level of actual development
    ===level of potential development
    ==zone of proximal development is area where learning takes place
    
• • thesis: problem is that formative assessment is thought of as a measurement instrument instead of a process indigenous to practice of teaching and learning.

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