Assessment Matrix
Running head: ASSESSMENT MATRIX
Module 3: Assessment Matrix
Valencia K. Gorman
Grand Canyon University: SPE 536
April 8, 2012
Module 3: Assessment Matrix Assessments are a vital tool that educators use to determine empirical strengthens and weaknesses of a student’s academic and behavioral ability to function. These assessments assist educators to plan and implement effective instruction that can facilitate deeper and higher student learning. It also helps educators to plan according to their students’ need and strengths on the academic content standard. The instruction is tailored upon their assessment results. There are varied forms of assessments that cater to the specific disability need of the student. As educators we have to fully understand the assessment process so we can reiterate the information about the student’s functioning ability to parents, educators, administrators, and other school personnel. Based on the information provide a plan will be devised to the type of services the child will receive. The type of assessment that is given will provide pertinent data that will guide the educator in providing effective lessons to assist in positive and progressive growth of the student. On a daily basis educators are utilizing assessments to assist in identifying what a student knows and does not know. It also helps educators in reteaching a skill, making accommodation, modifying a lesson to a level that a child will comprehend it better. Educators have to have knowledge of many types of assessment like informal, formal, summative, formative, criterion, and norm-referenced assessment. As a teacher become familiar with assessment they will be used in determining if a student requires further testing to identify a disability. In the field of Special Education assessment are used for the identification of a variety of disabilities with various age ranges. A special education teacher will need to have knowledge
Module 3: Assessment Matrix
Valencia K. Gorman
Grand Canyon University: SPE 536
April 8, 2012
Module 3: Assessment Matrix Assessments are a vital tool that educators use to determine empirical strengthens and weaknesses of a student’s academic and behavioral ability to function. These assessments assist educators to plan and implement effective instruction that can facilitate deeper and higher student learning. It also helps educators to plan according to their students’ need and strengths on the academic content standard. The instruction is tailored upon their assessment results. There are varied forms of assessments that cater to the specific disability need of the student. As educators we have to fully understand the assessment process so we can reiterate the information about the student’s functioning ability to parents, educators, administrators, and other school personnel. Based on the information provide a plan will be devised to the type of services the child will receive. The type of assessment that is given will provide pertinent data that will guide the educator in providing effective lessons to assist in positive and progressive growth of the student. On a daily basis educators are utilizing assessments to assist in identifying what a student knows and does not know. It also helps educators in reteaching a skill, making accommodation, modifying a lesson to a level that a child will comprehend it better. Educators have to have knowledge of many types of assessment like informal, formal, summative, formative, criterion, and norm-referenced assessment. As a teacher become familiar with assessment they will be used in determining if a student requires further testing to identify a disability. In the field of Special Education assessment are used for the identification of a variety of disabilities with various age ranges. A special education teacher will need to have knowledge
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