Chapter 9: Assessment in a Literacy 2.0 Environment

In this chapter called, "Assessment in a Literacy 2.0 Environment"  focuses on assessment in a Literacy 2.0 environment providing very meaningful knowledge construction. The transition between this chapter and chapter 8 was very smooth because having just learned about the different learning styles of each student may use, now it is time to assess those learning skills. There are two different types of assessments that the book talks about, formative and summative. Formative assessment is assessment for learning. This assessment focuses on the process of learning and is ongoing providing information needed to adjust teaching and support learning. Summative assessment is the assessment of learning that focuses on learning at a particular point, such as a cumulative project or an activity at the end of a unit. Both of these assessments are very valuable and important to consider in our classrooms. This chapter also focuses a lot on how to give feedback to the students using different tools such as inventories and surveys, checklists, rubrics and portfolios.

What was super interesting in this chapter was reading about the new generation of assessments for the Common Core State Standards and how it will be conducted completely online and how it will require students to respond to multiple-choice items, open-ended responses and performance assessments. This shift is a reminder of how important the use our technology is now in our society. Our teachers now have to be very open-minded and flexible to the change in standards as technology progresses. As a future educator, I plan to be very careful and cautious with using the different types of assessment because I do not want to discourage my students and I want to try to make it less difficult than what it really looks like.