FIAE Chapter 4: Three Important Types of Assessement

Three types of assessment were introduced in chapter four, including portfolios, rubrics and self-assessments. Portfolios are useful to students because they require the students’ work and their explanations for why their piece of work meets the goal that was set for the portfolio. Beyond simply doing an assignment, portfolios really made me think about why I did that assignment and how that assignment really fit into the main ideas of the class. I felt like this really benefited my understanding of my work and forced me to really master the material that was being covered. This could be very helpful to the students in my class because if they keep a portfolio of the important ideas that I lay out for them in the beginning of the year, the important concepts that I want them to truly grasp will hopefully be imbedded. This is also a way for me to check and see if the students truly grasp the concepts at hand.