EDU 657 - Assessment for Continuous School Improvement (3 )

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Assessment is an integral part of teaching and learning in the day of “Big Data”. Administrators use informal and formal assessments on an ongoing basis to make decisions about the school’s teachers and their role in the academic achievement of their schools. In this course, candidates will learn to evaluate the success of their teachers’ instruction, and to monitor the classroom academic climate in order to inform improved student learning. Candidates in this course will gain a better appreciation of why school, teacher, student, and classroom-based assessments have become a critical component of the instructional and evaluation process needed to inform school improvement. In this course, candidates will develop an assessment system which could be implemented in a school building and that is aligned with national and state educational objectives. This course will also include activities evaluating “hard assessment data” in order to develop school improvement plans. This course addresses Standard 1.4 Miss