Metacognition or Assessment TIPR
THE QUESTION: Assessment: How does the teacher assess student learning? Identify specific instances of informal and formal, formative and summative assessment and explain the types of assessments (e.g., self-assessment, portfolio, project, performance, etc.) that are used. How valid, reliable, biased, and practical are these assessments? Be sure to include a reference in your response. January 27, 2017 was my first day of observation. I spent the morning in Mrs. O's Productions and Beginning Theatre courses. Mrs. O used only informal formative assessments in the class periods I spent with her. The first assessment was in the process of blocking. The blocking was given as oral instruction while the students were required to write, in pencil, the blocking directions in their scripts. After this process was done, they got up and began to do the blocking physically. As the blocking was begun to be rehearsed, she would make the informal assessment of how they were doing by watching ...