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My WORST Assessment- A Self Reflection

As a teacher, I have created countless assessments that have evaluated my students' understanding of the learning objectives. Throughout the design, I developed tests reflecting the lessons, activities, and curriculum. Yet, some assessments could have been better after reflecting on students' scores and the test makeup. So, what was my worst assessment ? After evaluating my assessments, the final exam I gave my students this semester for my United States History was my worst. My colleagues gave me this summative assessment to administer to my students. I looked over the test, and it fit the learning objective of the material I taught. For me, this was different because I had been working on updating the assessments, but as a team, time got the best of us toward the end of the school year. We used a past final exam written before I started working here. Why was this my worst assessment? A sample of my worst assessment Reflecting on this final exam, the questions' design an...

What's My Best Assessment?

As an educator, I create assessments to evaluate my students' understanding of the material. Throughout the design process, I thin k about the lessons and the activities that have helped students to comprehend the main ideas to demonstrate their knowledge of the content. Reflecting on my tests, I have constantly improved these assessments and continue to find more ways to enhance them for the future. Feudalism Chart. This would be digital for students to fill in. What's my best assessment? Looking at all of the tests I have created, my Feudalism Assessment is my best example of evaluating my student's understanding of the learning objectives. This test consists of multiple-choice questions, a chart, and a written response section. The variety of questions allows for critical thinking and improvement in writing skills. When designing this summative, my focus was to take this assessment that generally would be completed on paper and be able to create this into a digital asse...