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Don't Assess a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree: Considerations and Strategies to Ensure Equitable Formative Assessment Practices for All Learners

Don't Assess a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree: Considerations and Strategies to Ensure Equitable Formative Assessment Practices for All Learners
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Author(s): Jennifer L. Kouo (Towson University, USA)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 17
Source title: Handbook of Research on Formative Assessment in Pre-K Through Elementary Classrooms
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Christie Martin (University of South Carolina, USA), Drew Polly (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA)and Richard Lambert (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0323-2.ch006

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Abstract

The heterogeneity of students in today's classrooms present many obstacles when it comes to formatively assessing learning. The formative assessment cycle affords teachers numerous opportunities to measure student progress towards objectives, provide timely feedback, and make necessary adjustments to instruction. Formative assessments also provide considerable value to students, in the form of learning engagement, and tracking their own progress and planning of future steps. Due to the value of formative assessments in making decisions and supporting students, it is necessary that educators plan and utilize equitable assessment practices to eliminate unnecessary barriers students may face. The chapter will therefore discuss the obstacles that variable learners may experience that impede their inclusion in classrooms, the importance of the universal design for learning in ensuring engagement and multiple means of action and expression, and finally, bring awareness to students with disabilities and the importance of accommodations and modifications in their success.

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