Final reflection

This may be due to my content area being ELA, but I found that creating a performance assessment was the most difficult for me. I think it's hard for me to imagine students doing something that isn't writing based given my content area. So, it took me a lot more time to not only come up with a performance assessment but how to properly grade said assessment. In the end, I feel like I came up with something measurable however, I still feel like I will need to work on performance assessments in the future as I continue on my path to becoming an educator. I found the selected response assessment to be the easiest. I feel like coming up with good and thoughtful questions was probably easy for me because I'm very inquiry-based in my teaching. So, it felt very natural for me to generate questions from my students to answer. I think what surprised me most about creating these assessments is how different they all were even though they all connected to the same learning target. my students would be able to demonstrate their knowledge easily with any of these assessments, but they were vastly different. it's interesting to think about how we can help our students accomplish their goals and meet standards through different assessments. I just found it interesting that I could apply one or more of these assessments at the end of the unit and still have my students meet the target I'd proposed to them. I think this will be very helpful in the future as I would love to give my students options when it came to final assessments.