1. Classroom Decision Making and Using Assessment Chapter 1 Educational Assessment of Students Anthony J. Nitko Presented by Sherie Loika

2. Teachers’ Classroom Decisions Decisions Before Beginning Teaching Content? Abilities, cultural backgrounds, interests? Materials? Learning activities? Learning targets? Organizing and arranging

3. Teachers’ Classroom Decisions Decisions During Teaching Is the lesson going well? What can be done to improve the lesson? What feedback should I give? Are my students ready to move to the next activity?

4. Teachers’ Classroom Decisions Decisions After a Teaching Segment Achieving the short and long-term instructional targets? Reporting strengths and weaknesses? Grade? Effectiveness of teaching? Effectiveness of curriculum and materials?

5. “you cannot expect to make good decisions …unless you can base these decisions on good-quality information”(Nitko, 2004, p. 5). Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

6. Assessment Test Measurement Evaluation Distinguish Between…

7. What is Assessment?

8. Which assessment procedure do you choose? Teacher Decision : During a lesson on assessment, test, measurement, and evaluation, the teacher wants to access the students’ ability to distinguish between and explain the relationships among the four new terms.

9. Assessment and Educational Decisions About Students Teacher Decision: After a lesson on educational decisions about students, the teacher wanted to assess the students ability to distinguish between selection, classification, placement, career guidance, diagnostic/remediation, and certification decisions.