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  • Jerry Laufer October 3, 2011 at 9:15am
    Assessment is also a tool to help students built confidence in their areas of learning to help them gain self motivation and self esteem all at the same time while enabling teachers to reach their goals while maintaing their class management skills while impacting their ability to remember not to just 'learn' ''content.
  • Susan Smead October 3, 2011 at 9:13am
    Purpose is probably two-fold.  To determine students' progress and to determine teachers' effectiveness.
  • Kathy Pickenpaugh October 3, 2011 at 9:13am
    We assess for a lot of different reasons.  Sometimes it is to see if students have learned the content that we have presented.  At other times we are assessing to see what background knowledge the students have.   Assessment can also help us target areas for reteach activities.
  • Donna Nickell October 3, 2011 at 9:12am
    Assessment helps students understand what they need to work on and allows us to encourage them to keep trying.
  • Margie Senter October 3, 2011 at 9:11am
    I assess students to find out prior knowledge, and to know where to review and start teaching.  I assess students to help me plan lessons according to student levels and, hopefully, interests.
  • David Rudnick October 3, 2011 at 9:10am
    To see if the students were able to master the technology that we are teaching them and how they are able to use it in a real world scenario.
  • Lisa Ann Brooks October 3, 2011 at 9:10am
    We need to know what the student knows so we need assessments.  There are different kinds of assessments to use. 
  • Julia N Riggleman October 3, 2011 at 9:10am

    Sometimes we assess to get a baseline of all the levels in the classroom.

     

    We may need to reteach.

     

    If reteaching is necessary, an alternative instructional strategy may be needed.

     

     

  • Andrea Catherine Karrs October 3, 2011 at 9:08am
    It is also a way to find out what you need to go over again, maybe with a different strategy or method........as well as discover which kids need more help and with what.
  • Mark Keaton October 3, 2011 at 9:08am
    To determine if the students learned the content.
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