Assessment Reflection

     In this class we have talked about assessment a lot. What it means, different types, how to create quality assessments, and how to assess ourselves. Without assessment how would we really know what we are learning? Assessment is a very important part of the learning process. When we assess we can learn how to improve ourselves, what our students are grasping, and what we need to work harder at, as teachers,  to help our students improve. In order to achieve all of these we must create quality and useful assessments. The NAEP project really helped me to see how difficult it can be to assess all students equally if you are not using a quality rubric. All students think differently  and may arrive at an answer to a problem differently, but we have to have a way to score their understandings. I like rubrics, I think that you can assess just about anything with them, but they are very difficult to create.