Equal Opportunities for Students in the Education System

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Journal Entry One: A Reflection of the Analysis
Assessment literacy matters to every educator because tests need to be able to collect data from every student without discrimination. Ethics is a huge part of this assignment, because it allows all students the same opportunities to show what they have learned and give them the same opportunity and the same chance to display what they have learned. It showed me where my strengths lie in proctoring assessments and it also gives me a chance to reflect on my weaknesses. This assignment also allowed me to see what I can still do to be a better instructor throughout the entire test assessment process. I have learned that myself and the rest of my campus needs to do a better job of looking into our results of our student’s test results and find better ways of instructing and what we need to do a better job of teaching. “Most of today’s public school educators were never required, as part of their pre-service or in-service training, to dig meaningfully into the viscera of educational testing.” (Popham, 2004) By listening to the advice of Popham, we owe it to our students every chance to learn and to get our very best instruction every day. I am going to take what I learned from this assignment and the checklist that we studied to become a better test administrator before the test and after the test to become a better teacher and to better instruct all of my students. I need to improve my abilities as an instructor and use the results of my students to better reach their full ability and maximize their learning.
Journal Entry Two: A Reflection of the Application
“Assessments are a powerful tool that can be constructed and used by teachers to improve student learning.” (Ho...

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... more about working in teams, which is something they will do a lot more of in the real world. Teaching my students on how to reflect on their education process, and giving them ample time to practice those reflections with their peers, will lead to higher order thinking and help each of the student’s piece together information in the material that they may not have learned from me.

Works Cited

Holler, E., Gareis, C., Martin, J., et al. (2008) Teacher-made Assessments: Getting Them
Right. Principal Leadership, 9(1), 60-64.
Popham, J. (2004). Why assessment illiteracy is professional suicide. Educational Leadership, 62(4).
82-83
William, D., & Thompson, M. (2007). Integrating assessment with instruction: What will it take to make it work? In C.A. Dwyer (Ed.), The future of assessment: Shaping teaching and learning
(pp. 53-82).

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