Portfolios, rubrics, and student self-assessment are three types of assessment that are important to a curriculum for varying reasons. Portfolios are a great sample of student work because it shows progress and the evolution of their knowledge over a period of time. It can also give insight to their own thoughts about their work if they are asked to explained why they picked certain pieces. Portfolios are cool because they vary within themselves whether its the amount of work, how much time has past through this portfolio, or what type of media it is. Another type of assessments are rubrics. Rubrics are great for students and teachers because both become aware of expectations of whatever is being graded. Students have something to refer to when working, and teachers can personalize the rubric to capture what big ideas they are trying to achieve through their students. Lastly is student self-assessment, which gets students in touch with their own work because they are easily able to reflect on it when assessing themselves, it also creates a common dialogue between teacher and student about that assignment.
As a student, I have had all of these assessments and have learned thoroughly through my assignments and assessments. As a teacher, based on my experience, I think I will try to incorporate all three in my classroom because I would not want to solely focus on one way to test students knowledge. Similarly to Chapter 5 in Multiple Intelligences, when teachers offer different types of assessments, students will be able to express their knowledge proficiently in hopefully all, but if not, at least one type of assessment.
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