Task 3: Assessing Student Learning

When assessing student learning in Task 3, the teacher candidate provides evidence of the following:

• Analysis of student learning, including what students did right AND wrong, and provides work samples to demonstrate patterns of learning
• Quality feedback to students which addresses both strengths and needs related to specific objectives
• Explanation of opportunities for focus students to use feedback to guide their further learning
• Student use of academic language to develop content understandings
• Ways the candidate will use the analysis of student learning to plan next steps in instruction

Kelsey Kemmer, College of Ed and APSU grad (Class of 2012), explains how she uses assessment in her real-world first-grade classroom: