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Assessment in an Inquiry Classroom

Link: http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~j-snow2/assessment.html

What is assessment? How can we assess student learning in an inquiry classroom? What are some resources for further information?http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~j-snow2/assessment.html A test is a mode of measurement, or may be thought of "as any standardized procedure for eliciting the kind of behavior we want to observe and measure_ (Frederiksen, 1984). Measurement is the assigning of numbers to the test results. The measurement data are used to make inferences about student achievement, relating the scores to the purpose of the test. The assessment lies in the interpretation of the inferences, combined with informal observations, to make an evaluative statement, in other words, a value judgment about a student's learning. Assessment is often used as a general term for a variety of procedures use to obtain information about student performance, including traditional paper-and-pencil tests and alternative approaches involving constructed response items, which are introduced in the How to Assess section.

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