Q & A Assessment for CNMI Teachers

Arayanee Maratita

Teacher: Luna Litulumar HJHS CCLHS Teacher

 ED 450: Assessment & Evaluation

Fall 2012

Ms. Soledad Camacho

1. How do you assess your students with special needs? 

Well it all depends on the ability of the student.  If the child can read and write then his/ her assessment is modified compared to his/ her classmates. 

2. Are your teacher-created assessments reliable? How do you know?  Has it been validated? How?

I can’t say they are reliable but I can say they work well for the IEP of the child.

3. How do you know your assessments are effective?

I see that the child is responding and remembers the things being taught to him/ her.

4. As a teacher in training, what do I need to know about assessment? 

Everything that can help students achieve their goals.

5. About how much of your assessment involves paper and pencil assessment? Why is this type of assessment used instead of a more hands-on approach to assessing students? 

My assessment involves hands on and presentations.  The students learn more and they retain more of the information.

6. What are several ways you assess your students?

Paper and pencil, presentations,

7. What is the purpose of assessing students?

Check for progress and comprehension

8. What is the difference between Common Core and CNMI Standards and Benchmarks?

Common Core is more general and CNMI is specific

9. What do you do with the results of your assessments?

Collections of data and turn it in to admin and central

10. How do you link assessment to the common core being presented?

We are not using common core

11. How do you assess students who do not want to participate?

Give them options, call parents when it becomes habitual

12. What are your most effective assessments and why?

Hands on and presentations

13. How do you evaluate SPED students during Gen Ed lessons?

Based on IEP

14. Do you collaborate with teachers from the same grade level to create assessment activities?

Yes teachers that are teaching same subject and sped contact teachers.

15. Do you use the (Adequate Yearly Progress) AYP to modify your instructions?

-Yes

16. Do you assess your students based on their learning styles? How?

No

17. How do we assess without stressing out?

Use seat works and quizzes

18. Do we assess just to get a grade for the report card?

Of course not!

19. Does PSS have a certain guideline for assessing?

Yes

20. What is your biggest challenge when it comes to evaluating students?

 What do you mean?

21. Why is assessment important?

-For progress

22. How often do you assess your students? How does the frequency of classroom assessments improve student achievement?

- Weekly, but because I am teaching Carolinian Bilingual, spelling and alphabet is difficult, it helps for improvement

23. What type of assessments do you prefer and why?

- Multiple Choices, Fill in the Blanks

24. Do you provide a rubric for each activity/assignment that your students do? Why or why not?

 Of course for assistance!

25. Do you make modifications in your teaching after assessing your students? If so, what strategies do you generally use to modify your teaching?

- Depends if majority have failed, which is rare.

26. What challenges do you face when assessing students who have different learning styles?

Accommodating everyone

27. Do you assess students authentically or on the pencil and paper method?

-Both

28. Do you pick and choose which assignments to add to the grade book? Or do you put everything in the grade book? Why/Why not?

Everything, for data collection. Admin request for everything documented

29. How do students receive feedback?

Based on grade, mid progress, and  one-to-one intervention

30. What are the diagnostic assessments that your school has/use? Summative?

STAR Math, Reading