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Assessment And Evaluation For Educators –
edd554
(3 credits)
This course is designed to provide P–12 teachers and administrators with a deeper appreciation of the role of assessment in education. Participants develop skills to evaluate the alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment for school improvement. Participants focus on standards-based assessments, data-driven instruction, and accountability to increase achievement.
This graduate-level course is 6
weeks.
To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.
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Review
- All objectives apply.
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Accountability and School Improvement
- Assess the effects of educational legislation on assessments in school districts.
- Analyze the use of evaluative student data to drive school improvement.
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Assessment Effects
- Analyze the effects of bias in assessments.
- Identify how the use of assessments affects various stakeholders.
- Align assessment to educational standards, curriculum, and instruction.
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Assessment in Instruction
- Apply assessment strategies to instruction.
- Demonstrate the multifunctionality of various assessments.
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Types of Assessments
- Differentiate among formative assessments, summative assessments, and self-assessments.
- Distinguish between norm-referenced and criterion-referenced standardized assessments.
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Role of Assessment
- Compare assessment and evaluation.
- Justify the role of assessment in education.
- Summarize historical influences on current assessment practices.
- The University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses.
- While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
- Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.
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