EDU 506 - Assessment and Evaluation in Teaching and Learning

3 Semester Hour(s)

This course is designed to provide students with assessment, evaluation, and testing tools necessary to enhance learning for diverse students. The course will address strategies and best practices to assess higher order cognitive objectives, social, language, motor, and effective domains to improve classroom instruction. Students will participate in activities that will enhance understanding of assessment task development, analysis, and interpretation of results to improve teaching and learning methods. Emphasis will be placed on documentation of student performance and progress both for instructional and accountability purposes, communication with parents and students, and creation of change regarding views toward assessment and testing. Students will become familiar with assessment and testing concepts and practices used to evaluate student learning in the classroom. In addition, the course will explore technologies as well as computer software programs that are used to enhance the assessment and record keeping process. Teaching in an elementary school is a primary requirement for this course where students apply what they learn. Students will develop Portfolio Work Sample 2.