1. Bloom's Taxonomy is a way to classify learning objectives, and gives ideas for how students can demonstrate their competency. The 6 parts of Bloom's Taxonomy are;
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Remember: students can recall or recognize info. They may do this by listing or labeling etc.
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Understand: students make sense of informations or make connections. They may do this byexplaining or summing up.
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Apply: students use principles to solve problems. They may do this by computing or solving.
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Analyze: students distinguish or classify or make hypotheses about info. They may do this by categorizing or comparing.
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Evaluate: students judge the value of info. They may do this by critiquing or recommending.
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Create: students combine ideas to create new products. they may do this by designing or inventing.
2. Validity is the degree to which a test measures what it is intended to measure. Reliability is the consistency of test results. These are important as they help to ensure testing is fair and accurate. It also helps limit other factors such as time restraints and problems with questions from interfering with the results. If a test is valid and reliable it will measure the knowledge of students about the desired topics and will consistantly produce the same results among students.
3. An example of product performance assessment is a student creating a clay pot in pottery class, and the teacher grading the finished product. An example of process performance assessment would be a teacher viewing a student make lay-ups and commenting and grading their performance of the skill, and making sure they perform the correct steps to do a lay-up.
4. Three different ways to evaluate performance assessments would be to have the students participate in;
a) Presenting: students would show what they know to the class through an oral presentation or demonstration.
b)Projects: Students build or create a physical product to show their knowledge on a given subject. This would require the use of many different skills.
c)Portfolios: Students keep and organize all their different activities, projects, and papers. This shows how students have progressed throughout a given amount of time.
5. An elementary school teacher would need to be concerned with assessment bias as it could ultimately skew the results of the assessment. If a teacher is biased when grading it may not be apparent what a student is really skilled at or what they really need to improve on. It restricts the value of the actual rating, and is unfair to students.
