Chapter 4: Three Important Types of Assessment

Chapter four details three types of assessment that can be used instead of standardized tests. The three types of alternate assessments are student portfolios, rubrics, and self assessments. In math class I think a student portfolio would work great. You could see the change in the students work through the units and over the course of a year. You could really track the difference in understanding by assessing their entire body of work. Rubrics and self assessment would also be good tools but I think the motivation to self assess would be low with some math students and a rubric will not always be practical with math work.