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=**Marian University EDT 678 **=

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**Standard 8 **
The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the pupil.
 * Teachers know how to test for student progress. **


 * Evidence 1: ** Online Multiple Choice Quizzes [|AP Stats Text Online Quizzes]


 * Rationale 1: ** The online multiple choice quizzes were already developed by the publisher for the Advanced Placement Statistics textbook used for this course. They were developed in an effort to provide students with an opportunity to self-assess their understanding of a particular chapter of the textbook. The quizzes are short, each contains only ten multiple choice questions. Once students have answered every question, they can submit their answers and they will be provided with their score. The website will display the quiz again with the students’ chosen answer and an explanation of the correct answer if it was incorrect. This provides students with an opportunity to see how they did and allow them to make sense of any questions they answered incorrectly. The AP Stats students are required to complete these online quizzes on their own prior to the chapter test as a form of review or self assessment. I am able to check if they did the quizzes and their performance on them. However, they are only graded on whether they completed the quiz or not, not their actual performance on it.

The idea of having the students take the quizzes came from the EDT 672 class, Teaching and Learning On-Line. Students in AP Stats are expected to read their textbook. It is a tough task to get the students to do. These online quizzes provide motivation to read the textbook and offer reinforcement to its importance. The online chapter quizzes are important to my development as a teacher because it lets me provide students an opportunity to be engaged in their own understanding by self-assessing their knowledge

// 8.K.2 The teacher knows how to select, construct, and use assessment strategies and instruments appropriate to the learning outcomes being evaluated and to other diagnostic purposes. // The online quizzes are a good assessment tool because the questions come right from the text the students have read. The questions are of varying levels of difficulty, they are not just a reiteration of the text. These multiple choice questions are also very good practice for the questions the students will see on the AP exam. The online quizzes are done on their own so they are able to use notes and or the text to help them answer the questions. It is up to them to use the strategy that is most helpful to them.
 * KSD: **

// 8.S.3 The teacher uses assessment strategies to involve learners in self-assessment activities, to help them become aware of their strengths and needs, and to help them to set personal goals for learning. //

The online quiz gives the students immediate feedback on their understanding of the material. It gives them an idea of how much they have retained from reading the text. Since they also know which questions were answered incorrectly and what they were about, they can go back to the text or their notes and review those concepts prior to the test.

// 8.D.1 The teacher values ongoing assessment as essential to the instructional process and recognizes that many different assessment strategies, accurately and systematically used, are necessary for monitoring and promoting student learning. // Since I get a report on how the students did on these online quizzes, I can use it encourage students who appear to not have read the text. Although I do not grade the students on accuracy of the quizzes, I do report it on the online grading program as information for them and their parents.