FIAE Chapter 3: Principles of Successful Assessment in the Differentiated Classroom

The biggest thing that jumped out to me in chapter three was to be abrupt with the students.  Tell them what is going to be on the tests so that they can look for those important facts that they will need to put in their reservoir of knowledge.  Having an idea of what I will be expected to know for an assessment before the content was provided always allowed me to know all of the information that was truly important in the material covered.  I learned more when I knew what it was that I needed to concentrate on instead of memorizing everything in the book.  I will pass out tests at the beginning so that they can differentiate the important aspects from when they come up in class.  The numbers and certain material in the “true” test will be changed, but everything else on the test will be exactly the same.