EDUC 340 - Assessment

5 Credits

This course explores assessment concepts and classroom techniques, focusing on issues of equity and social justice. It reviews concepts of reliability and validity, analyzes common assessment and grading techniques used on individual, classroom, school, and district levels through an equity lens including: standard-based grading, Response to Intervention, and Individualized Educational Plans. Teacher assessment including TPEP and edTPA will also be introduced. (required for teacher certification, passing scores on WEST-B required for enrollment).

Instructor Permission Required Yes
Program Admission Required Yes Admitted Program BAS - EDUC
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Spring Evening, Online

Designed to Serve Students in the Bachelor of Applied Science in Teaching and Early Learning degree program who are also seeking teacher certification.
Active Date 20220330T15:33:38

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 24
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
ProfTech Course Yes
Course Outline

Principles of measurement

Definition
Scales of measurement

Types of assessment

Formal
Informal

Bias in Assessment

Sources of Bias
Minimizing Bias

Tools of assessment

Observation
Tests

Uses of Assessment

Individualized Educational Plans (IEPs)
Class Assessments
Social Justice Critique

State-Required Assessments

Student Assessments
Teacher Assessments (WEST, edTPA, TPEP)

Standards-Based Grading

Student Learning Outcomes
Create assessments based on inclusion, diversity, and social justice based on a critique of how biases influence formal and informal assessments.

Compare and contrast multiple types of assessment useful for making instructional, schoolwide, district-wide, and state-wide decisions and how state-required assessments affect district-wide decisions.

Develop a system of assessments and learning outcomes based on state-required grade-level standards.

Demonstrate how assessment(formative/summative) data is used to inform teaching practices.