Monitoring student progress does not always refer to an end of the unit test. More often, educators are accessing this information after lessons and activities to assess student learning, application, and retention of the content. This information also guides future learning. The authors of our required text, Cohen and Spenciner (2009) state, good teaching always begins with an understanding of what the student already knows and can do, (p. 125). Conducting frequent assessment helps teachers to adjust instruction in order to target the learning objectives and long-range (IEP) goals.
offers a series of short video vignettes designed to offer easy to implement informal assessment strategies. Choose one of the following to review:
- Infinitely Reusable Folders for Practice and Assessment
- Text What You Learned: Using Technology to Assess
- Communicate Learning With Silent Signals
- My Favorite No: Learning From Mistakes
- Patterns Folders: A Literary Analysis Tool
- Clipboards: A Tool for Informal Assessment
- The Stoplight Method: An End-of Lesson Assessment
Initial Post: After reviewing the Week One Instructor Guidance, Chapter 5 of your required textbook, and one of the , post a substantive initial response fully addressing each of the following:
- In no more than two paragraphs, explain the role of assessment in monitoring student progress using evidence from at least two scholarly sources to support your explanation.
- Consider the Week One Instructor Guidance page elaboration about assessment and monitoring student progress, the assessment methods described in Chapter 5 in the course textbook, and the conversation among peers and the instructor thus far about contemporary practices for measuring and evaluating student progress in the Post Your Introduction discussion. In no more than two paragraphs, summarize what you know about assessment and monitoring student progress and what you would still like to learn (i.e., anything about the topic of assessment and monitoring student
- progress that is unclear for you at this point).
- Citing the specific video from the link provided, as well any additional source(s), including your required course textbook, list at least three strategies for monitoring student progress that you could include as part of a lesson plan for students with mild to moderate disabilities.
Text
Cohen, L. & Spenciner, L. (2009) (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Publication.
