Chapter 3: Principles of Successful Assessment in the Differentiated Classroom

This chapter is all about assessment. It introduces the idea that assessing at the end of a unit is not the best way to measure if students are learning the material because it is too late to help them. A lot of focus should be on formative assessment that will measure and help shape the learning as it is happening. This is important to my future math class because I do not want a bunch of tests on my desk with incorrect answers. If there are a lot of wrong answers on the end of unit test, then I have not done my job as the teacher assessing the class through the lesson. There is no reason to give a test if you know the students do not know the information.