Educational Psychology
Chapter 14 Learning Goals
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
- Discuss the importance to teachers of classroom assessments.
- Compare and contrast formal assessments with informal assessments.
- Explain the concept of evaluating student achievement.
- Compare and contrast formative assessment with summative assessment.
- Compare and contrast norm-referenced assessment with
criterion-referenced assessment.
- Describe how the goals of assessment affect how students study and what
they learn.
- Explain the goals and types of traditional assessment.
- Discuss how to decide which material a test should cover.
- Discuss the when and how of testing.
- Describe how to develop five different types of objective test
questions.
- Describe how to develop, and then evaluate, essay tests.
- Explain the rationale of using authentic assessments.
- Define characteristics of good authentic assessments.
- Describe two kinds of portfolios and how portfolios are created.
- Describe exhibitions as a form of authentic assessment.
- Discuss how to evaluate performance on authentic assessments.
- Describe how your grading system impacts student learning.
- Discuss the general grading guidelines of expert teachers.
- Compare and contrast criterion-referenced grading systems with
norm-referenced grading systems.
- Describe total-point grading systems.
- Describe percentage grading systems.