CHAPTER 10:
**Discuss the most important role of student assessment.
Prensky suggests that most past assessments are summative, which gives no supportive feedback other than ranking one student performance against another. More useful assessments would be abundant in feedback helping students to learn from their mistakes. Ipsative, peer, real-world, and tool-based assessments give both the teacher and student a better idea of their strengths and weaknesses. Teachers will have a broader scope of each student’s capabilities and may be able to identify at-risk youth more clearly. Further, these are the types of assessments they are more likely to encounter post-education. After all, I believe teachers primary goal should be to prepare students for what awaits them beyond the classroom walls so they may become productive members of the global community.
Prensky suggests that most past assessments are summative, which gives no supportive feedback other than ranking one student performance against another. More useful assessments would be abundant in feedback helping students to learn from their mistakes. Ipsative, peer, real-world, and tool-based assessments give both the teacher and student a better idea of their strengths and weaknesses. Teachers will have a broader scope of each student’s capabilities and may be able to identify at-risk youth more clearly. Further, these are the types of assessments they are more likely to encounter post-education. After all, I believe teachers primary goal should be to prepare students for what awaits them beyond the classroom walls so they may become productive members of the global community.
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