Fair Assessments

Pennsylvania's Standards Aligned System organizes Clear Standards into a hierarchy, or standards tree. The components of the standards tree include Assessment Anchors and Eligible Content which identify the knowledge and skills students are being held accountable for on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA). This course will provide you with a solid understand of how SAS supports the assessment process.

A minimum score of 75% (120/160) is required to pass this course.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course you will be able to:

• Define what is meant by summative, formative, diagnostic and benchmark assessments.
• Explain how fair assessments foster learning, and hold teachers and students accountable for learning.
• Develop formative assessment strategies using the SAS methodology.
• Demonstrate the use of engaging formative assessment strategies to measure students' depth of knowledge.
• Create a summative assessment (end of unit lesson or end of lesson assessment) in your area of expertise that ensures your students are prepared to advance to the next area of instruction.

 

 

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