Assignment 2 IP&T 301

1.Bloom's taxonomy is a way of classifying learning objectives. The six areas are remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create.
2.The difference between validity and reliability is that validity is seeing if the assessment is actually doing what it was planned to do. Reliability involves consistency. Both of these are very important because without them, the tests would have no meaning and wouldn't be able to truly evaluate a child's learning.
3. A product performance assessment would be the letter a child writes; whereas, the process assessment would involve the whole process of the letter with all of the drafts.
4.The three major ways to evaluate performance assessments are checklists, rating scales, and rubics. With a checklist, the teacher picks different qualities she wants in the work and the checks whether the qualities are there or not. A rating scale allows the teacher to rate ability. For example, you have seen rating scales with different options that say "never, sometimes, often , and always." Rubrics are more comprehensive than rating scales and allow the teacher to really look at the piece in a whole (holistic) or in individual aspects (analytic).
5. Sometimes you may end up grading a student more harshly or leniently depending on your bias, either towards the child or grading. When you are bias, you lose some of the reliability of the assessment, and thus are unable to get the most comprehensive evaluation.