Description
This course is designed to provide middle-level and secondary teacher candidates knowledge of assessment in the middle and secondary grades that includes selecting methods of evaluation appropriate to each discipline and the age, development, and characteristics of students, interpreting and communicating results accurately and ethically, and integrating information gained through assessment into instructional plans. Methods of authentic, performance-based assessment will be stressed. Teacher candidates will also understand the impact and effect of State accountability laws on instruction and assessment as well as the major concepts, principles, theories, standards, and research related to middle-level and secondary assessment.