Assignment:
Summary Paper - Curriculum Evaluation and Assessment of Learning
Refer once again to the area of curriculum content you chose for the Problem of the Match assignment. Submit a summary paper responding to the criterion questions below from your textbook (p. 413) as you consider the curriculum evaluation and assessment of learning in this curriculum content.
1. Are both formative and summative evaluation used to make judgments about the quality of the curriculum?
2. Are appropriate assessments used to determine if the purposes and goals of the curriculum have been attained?
3. Are assessments of learning meaningful and authentic for students?
4. Are multiple, diverse forms of assessment used to determine what students know and are able to do?
5. Do assessments of student learning require the active construction of meaning, not just recall of information?
6. Is there a place for students to assess their own learning?