Chapter 14

(14.1) Think of a lesson plan from your licensure area (feel free to use the same topic you used for Chapter 6, 9 & 10). Knowing that assessment is an integral part of teaching, explain at least four informal and formal assessments that you will use in your lesson plan to provide you with feedback and involve the students in assessing their own learning.


(14.2) Consider norm referenced assessment and criterion referenced assessment. Are there advantages to both? Are their disadvantages?

In my opinion both tests would have disadvantages to my students. Since my students will be deaf and hard of hearing the norm referenced assessment may try to compare them to hearing individuals which will of course be able to perform better on tests that are presented in written English format. I truly cannot see the advantages to either since the criterion referenced assessment would have probably been giving in written English and even if not compared to the students peers as the norm referenced test the criterion referenced may not take into consideration that the student may not know what the written word truly means, but when the word is signed to the student they can tell you everything about that word. So for my students their test results may actually come back with scoring that does not truly reflect what they have learned in my classroom.