Chapter 4

This chapter discussed three different types of assessments: 1. Portfolios, 2. Rubrics, and 3. Self-Assessments. With portfolios, teachers can examine a students' work over time, the students get opportunities to reflect on their own progress, and the portfolios can contain different time frames or stages in a student's life. Rubrics tell the students how the teacher is going to grade, based on quality of the work that the student passes in. By giving the rubric to the class ahead of time, the students get to decide what they want to recieve as a grade by using the rubric as a guide for every assignment they pass in. Student Self-Assessment is very important because it gives the student an opportunity to tell the teacher what they honestly think they should recieve as a grade based on how hard they worked on the assignment(s). All of these assessments are authentic, and they also are great ways to track the progress of the students.

Using only one of these assessments by itself may not be as effective than if all three were used together. This way, the teacher gets to view the students' work over time, but have a grading guideline, and the student has a chance to tell the teacher what he thinks he deserves as a grade based on his work.