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EDUC/524

Assessment and Evaluation for Educators

Course level: Continuing Teacher Education

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Continuing Education for Teachers

Online

Format

$525

Estimated Tuition

3 credits

Total credits

4 weeks

Course length

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This course is designed to provide P-12 teachers and administrators with a deeper appreciation of the role of assessment in education. Participants research influences on current trends in assessment and fundamentals of the assessment process and develop skills to evaluate the alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment for school improvement. Standards-based assessments, data-driven instruction, and accountability to increase achievement are also addressed.

This course is not available for enrollment to residents of Alabama, Arkansas, and Kentucky.

Prerequisites

None

Required materials

The materials required for this course are covered in your resource fees.

Please Note: Attendance and participation are mandatory in all University courses, and specific requirements may differ by course. If attendance requirements are not met, a student may be removed from the course. Please review the Course Attendance Policy in the Catalog for more information.

University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses. While widely available, not all programs are available to residents of all states. Please check with a University Enrollment Representative.

Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.

  • Summarize historical influences on current assessment practices in today’s schools.
  • Describe the roles of assessment in education.
  • Compare the concepts of assessment, testing, and evaluation.
  • Identify the fundamentals of educational assessment.
  • Apply assessment strategies to instruction.
  • Justify the need for reliability, validity, and fairness in educational assessments.
  • Create guidelines for teacher-developed assessments.
  • Identify characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses of selected-response and constructed-response testing formats.

  • Distinguish between norm-referenced and criterion-referenced standardized assessments.
  • Differentiate among formative assessments, summative assessments, and self-assessments.
  • Identify examples of effective informal assessment methods.
  • Analyze the purpose, use, and interpretation of portfolio and performance assessments.

  • Align assessments to educational standards, curriculum, and instruction.
  • Create assessment tasks that are congruent with stated instructional objectives.
  • Identify how the use of assessments affects various stakeholders.
  • Analyze the effects of bias in assessments.

  • Analyze the use of evaluative student data to drive school improvement.
  • Evaluate the current trends in grading, marking, and reporting practices.
  • Identify appropriate and inappropriate test-preparation practices.
  • Assess the effects of educational legislation on assessments in school districts.

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Learn from instructors who bring an average of 25 years of working experience to the classroom.

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Our tuition and fees are competitive and fixed. Also, check to see if your employer will cover you for this course.

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University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses. Although our continuing teacher education courses are accepted by some state agencies in the United States toward teacher certifications and endorsements, this may not be the case in all states or foreign jurisdictions. If you plan to use courses for certification or endorsement, please check with your own state agency and your school district for applicability. Continuing teacher education courses are not eligible to apply to degree programs at University of Phoenix. These courses are not eligible for federal financial aid. While widely available, not all programs are available to residents of all states. Please check with a University Enrollment Representative. If you have a question contact us at (866) 354-1800.