EDUC 414 - Assessment of Students

3 credits
3 hours per week.

This course provides an introduction to tests and measurement procedures appropriate to teaching in the elementary and the secondary school. Classroom activities afford pre-service teachers opportunities to use measuring techniques with discrimination in order to improve the quality of their instruction, to evaluate students, and to reach more valid judgments about the characteristics of human behavior. Attention is given to procedures employed in performance outcome assessments such as portfolio assessment and other nontraditional assessment procedures. Legal, political, ethical, moral and social policy issues in testing and measurement are presented as topics for exploration and inquiry with regard to their impact on the assessment of students and the inter-action of school personnel with parents and the community. Procedures for ensuring that pre-service teachers acquire strategies for developing Nation and State Assessment competencies in their students are emphasized. Required classroom observation is used to reinforce instructional concepts.

Prerequisite(s) EDUC 200 and ELED 316