How to Evaluate Student Learning

In my Exceptional Students class this week, I learned about a few different ways to evaluate student learning. The most common way to evaluate student learning is through testing. This will work for some students but for others it doesn't work as well.

Another way to evaluate student learning is through performance-based assessments. This type of assessment provides the student with the opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of a skill through the performance of doing a task. This task could be putting together a puzzle, growing a plant, or being able to match the word of an object to the picture.

This has really helped me to see how I can fairly evaluate the learning of my students. I will definitely be applying and using these two methods of evaluation in my future classroom.

I also completed another stimulation for this class that involved asking some questions to different people without using words that contained the letters "l" and "n". It was very hard to talk without using these letters. I had to really think and concentrate on what words I was saying. It also took a lot longer to ask my whole question. Through this experience I have realized that there are many words that I use all the time that contain these two letters.