Assessment for All Learners: Issues, Trends & Implementation

Catalog description

This course introduces students to assessment from a holistic perspective, including but not limited to formal assessments and screeners often used in early childhood, assessments that focus on the learning environment, and assessments of educators’ pedagogy. Students will take a critical lens to metrics of assessment and identify how assessment data and results can be used in service of students’ learning and wellbeing. Students will engage in course readings related to assessment as well as multiple examples of assessments—types of assessments as well as specific individual assessments students may use in their own classroom environments.