Thursday, November 8, 2012

Forms of Assessment Blog Prompt 2


A learning goal could be learning spelling words for the week. This goal could be accomplished through information processing theory, where the children would connect the words to their prior knowledge of the subject. This could be done by having the students connect the words to mnemonics or pictures. The learning goal would be to have the child retrieve this information after it has been encoded. They could do this on the form of assessment of a spelling test. To aid the student to retrieve this information, the students could practice by being told the word verbally. Therefore, when the test is administered they have connected the information of how to spell the word to their long term memory, as well as the word sounded out, and therefore when you connect the two they have been internalized and are easily executed when the spelling test is given.

2 comments:

  1. I think this demonstrates a great way for students to practice becoming good spellers in a test situation. Instead of only studying the written word, hearing it verbally and proceeding to spell it will most certainly help when taking the test.

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  2. I like how your learning goal connects really well with your chosen theory that guides instruction. Are you saying that you would aid retrieval on the assessment of the words? For example, if they encoded the meaning of the words by hearing them verbally, it would aid retrieval if you spoke each word during the test. I think this would be a great way to make your assessment align with IP theory as well!

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