Mar 28, 2024  
2020-2021 SGPP Catalog and Handbook 
    
2020-2021 SGPP Catalog and Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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MED680 Assessment to Promote Understanding and Achievement (3 cr.)


In this course, practicing educators gain an understanding and proficiency in creating and implementing assessments that promote student achievement and understanding. Learners research and design formative assessments to guide student learning and their teaching. Aligning assessments to instructional outcomes and planning serves as a focus of the course. Learners also develop an understanding of self-assessment and apply that understanding to their teaching and their students’ learning.

Upon completion of this course, learners are expected to be able to do the following:

  1. Explore various forms of assessment, including formative and summative assessments.
  2. Develop assessments to monitor and scaffold student learning as well as inform instructional planning.
  3. Align assessments with content knowledge and skills and/or essential outcomes connected with the curriculum. 
  4. Understand the implications, issues, and challenges connected with assessment.
  5. Utilize self-assessment strategies to scaffold learning experiences and to inform instructional planning.



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