EDU/510 EDU510 EDU 510 Week 5 DISCUSSION

EDU 510 Week 5 DISCUSSION

Week 5 Discussion

"Crafting Formal and Informal Assessment Measures Continued and Evaluating Assessment Strategies"  Please respond to the following:

• From the e-Activity and the guidance described in Chapters 9 and 10, evaluate your experience developing meaningful test items that instructors can use to assess whether students have learned the subject matter. Suggest at least (2) specific advantages that you believe an educator would have by using essay and multiple-choice assessment items instead of short-answer and true-false assessment items. Justify your response.
• Take a position on whether educators should develop their own assessments or useonline test generators. Support your position by citing benefits that educators gain by developing their own assessments, along with at least three (3) examples of such benefits.
• Read this article titled Why Testing Prevails in K-12 dated April 18 in which PresidentObama discusses the current issues with standardized testing.   Here are the opening paragraphs:

The Obama administration on Friday announced new priorities surrounding the Enhancement Assessment Grant program, designed to help states and districts get smarter about standardized testing. The new efforts build upon an October 2015 announcement of President Barack Obama's new Testing Action Plan, which called for a reexamination of the way tests are used in schools.

The president said students "should only take tests that are worth taking — tests that are high quality, aimed at good instruction, and make sure everyone is on track," testing shouldn't take up too much classroom time, and the assessments should be one tool in a more complete toolbox to help schools get an indication of student progress and school and teacher effectiveness.

http://www.educationdive.com/news/why-testing-prevails-in-k-12-education-1/417294/

 Weigh in on this issue.   Should students take fewer tests?  How and when will that take place?