Assessment

From a student's perspective assessment can seem to be the judgment of skills and ability to perform. The "critical eye" watching every move you make. From a teacher's perspective assessment can be used as a tool to evaluate where students' cognitive development is at and then be able to take the steps to increase cognitive development. Assessment can be done through various different tactics, and particular tactics work better for different subjects. Test are one of the most popular tactics in schools to assess students, and most students hate test! Math offers a lot of freedom for different methods of assessment. I loved projects while in school. I liked putting the creativity, thought, and time into projects that were required. At the end of the assessment (project), I also had physical proof of my learning in my hands and something to be proud of. Where a test is over with and you don't have something you want to keep forever. Since I took so much pride in my project and felt they were much more enjoyable than test I will probably offer as many project possibilities in my class.