Chapter 4 FIAE: Three Important Types of Assessment

The two things that I liked the best from this chapter was the form of portfolios and self-assessment for ways to assess students. First, I think that portfolios are a really good tool for teachers, because they are able to easily see the progress students have made. This progress could be from either the academic year, or it could be throughout their whole middle or high school career. The students also like it as well, because, while they will complain about the amount of work put into it to create it, they will enjoy the end product and seeing how much they have done, and the progress they have made. The second form of assessment I liked was self-assessment. This is a good tool, because it requires the students to take a deeper look at what they have done throughout the unit, and to see if they reached the requirements set out for them. It’s also good because then the students can look and see how their own self-assessment compares to the teachers assessment. These two types of assessment are two that I will definitely be using in the classroom, because I feel that the students should be assessing and reviewing their work with a critical eye, just like the teacher does.