Analyzing Assessment Literacy

Assessment literacy is a term that is utilized to refer to knowledge and skills required by educators to identify, choose or create assessments for various purposes relating to the specific learning goals and objectives. This term also refers to measures educators use to examine qualitative and quantitative evidence from assessments for improved decision making on how to enhance student learning. Therefore, assessment literacy is regarded as an important and necessary skill for contemporary educators because of the role in plays in enhancing student learning and achievement (Pipkin, 2017). Assessment-literate educators have the ability to identify suitable and unsuitable assessment practices. This paper documents and analyzes personal survey of assessment literacy and school survey of assessment literacy.

Part 1 Personal Survey of Assessment Literacy

To examine my assessment literacy, I conducted a survey using an assessment tool that incorporated different sections i.e. General Considerations, Prior to Test Design, Writing the Test, During Test Administration, and After Testing. As shown in Figure 1, I performed in assessment on Writing the Test, General Considerations, and After Testing items at 4.0, 3.9, and 3.8 respectively. However, I had low average scores in items relating to Prior to Test Design and During Test Administration at 3.2 and 2.7 respectively. Generally, these results demonstrate my understanding of the significance of assessments in improving student learning over time and the approach I utilize in providing assessments to students i.e. standards-based. Given the different scores in these categories, there are some strengths and weaknesses in my assessment literacy skills and capabilities. The areas of weaknesses require improvement in order to enhance my assessment literacy skills and help design assessments that help in the achievement of desired learning goals and objectives as well as improving student learning and achievement.

Figure 1: Results of Personal Survey of Assessment Literacy

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As previously mentioned, I had the highest average scores in this area, which demonstrates that my test items focus on the core of the subject and purpose of the test. According to Goodrich (2014), one of the most important elements in...…specific objectives of the lessons to determine what areas to examine.

The schools greatest limitation in regard to assessment literacy is During Administration of Common Assessments area. Teachers at the school are struggling with providing students clear test directions, providing a conducive testing environment, and monitoring students as they take the tests. One of the goals for dealing with limitation in the school in relation to assessment literacy is ensuring active monitoring during testing, which helps to provide a conducive testing environment for all students. Active monitoring will help address this limitation by ensuring teachers and other test administrators remain mobile and move around the room as students are working on their tests (Mariotti, 2009).

In conclusion, assessment literacy is an important tool in the modern learning environment since it provides a suitable foundation for creation of assessments that are in line with the desired learning objectives and content. Teachers in the modern classroom need to possess assessment literacy skills to help in improving student learning. Through helping teachers create good assessments, assessment literacy skills contribute toward improved student learning and achievement by indicating students…