Ch 14 all over again :)

I'm going to go ahead and just do Chapter 14 all over.

Four informal and formal assessments that you will use in your lesson plan to provide you with feedback and involve the students in assessing their own learning.

Informal- As I said before I think that with deaf students, informal assessment is a very important part of tracking their education developments. I could just have a discussion time with the students about a novel we read and seeing what certain students would answer. Another way to informally evaluate the deaf students, is hypothetically speaking, say I have a kindergarten class and I have a deaf student that their parents wish for them to learn sign language. So in class when I am helping this child learn, I could informally check their progress by practicing some signing with them.

Formal- Before I mentioned having the students have a paper and pencil test for the 20 words that they have for that week and are tested on those for spelling. I could even change that and have them take a test on the meaning of those 20 words. There are many different combinations. Another formal test I could give would be maybe about a children's novel we read in class and have the students answer questions about the novel such as who is the main character, plot, etc. 

(14.2) Consider norm referenced assessment and criterion referenced assessment. Are there advantages to both? Are their disadvantages?

Norm-referenced assessments to me sometimes can be a good thing but can also be bad. I think it is good to get an idea of where everyone in the class stands but also think it can be embarrassing to put that on display in front of peers. If you go about assessing it in the right way where it won't show attention to the students then I think sometimes it can be good to get an idea of where everyone compares. Also I think that if we broaden it out and look at it from comparing not just peers but maybe that grade level across the nation, it can be good to compare. While it is comparing the peers or grade level across the nation it really isn't showing the scores of how the students actually learned in the subject areas so I think that is another con against norm-referenced assessments.

Criterion-referenced assessments I think are a better fit with elementary students. It is actually scoring what the students have accomplished or not accomplished up to the standards for that subject area. I think this assessment is better because once I know what the students are having trouble with or are good at, I can bring that out in class time and help the students grow, learn, and become better students.