Explanation about Assessment Tools

*Multiple Intelligence & Myer's Briggs Personality Test
What is it? 
 -Multiple intelligence: 8 different ways to demonstrate intellectual ability. 
 -Myer's briggs personality test:  personality test type composed of four letters. The combination of these letters will tell you quite a bit about your personality. You will be told whether you are an Extrovert or Introvert, whether you are Judging or Perceiving, and what your dominant, helping, tertiary and inferior functions are, ranging from your strongest (dominant) to your weakest (inferior), in that order.

In the classroom
  -M.I can be used as learning centers. Each learning center provides one of 8 different intelligence. Students will be doing each activities by rotating in given time.

 -These tests enable leadership helping students gain awareness of their individual's strengths which can then be honed to perfection. By being aware of a student's strengths and weakness, the educational institution can also ensure that there are lesser conflicts between the students. This test also help educational facilities develop special learning methods depending on the capacities of the students and help them retain the knowledge more efficiently. It is important that education does not limit itself only to a classroom. More often than not, individuals have knowledge that is restricted only to their books and has a short life span. With the help of the Myers Briggs Personality test individuals will be able to gain ample self-knowledge that they can take even beyond the classroom

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*Performance Task
what is it?
  -An assessment exercise that is goal directed. The exercise is developed to elicit students' application of a wide range of skills and knowledge to solve a complex problem.

In the classroom, 
it can be used for assessment tool for students' various performances such as role-playing and puppet show
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*Checklist, Learning Logs, & Journals
what is it? 
 -Checklist: an assessment instrument or data recording device that records the presence or absence of attainment of desired concepts, skills, processes, or attitudes

 -Learning Logs: are like diaries students keep that record their reflections about

what they are learning and how they are going about learning it. Learning Logs are useful because they promote metacognition. They are also useful tools for teachers because they can reveal students' perceptions (and misperceptions) of the information, as well as reveal how they are reacting to the way the material is being taught.

 -Journals: A personal record of occurrences, experiences, and reflections kept on a regular basis; a diary
In classroom:
 -observation checklist can be used by not only giving an observer a structure and framework for an observation but also serving as a contract of understanding with the teacher who may as a result be more comfortable, and will get specific feedback on aspects of the class.
 -as students write to learn, they also learn to recognize their own and other’s good work. Learning logs assist the learning process and they are concise, objective factual and impersonal in tone.
 -show teachers students' understanding and allow teachers to target lessons to individual students based on what is revealed in the journals.

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*Matrix & Rubrics
what is it?
  -Matrix: A matrix is an arrangement of items into labeled rows and columns within a table.

  -Rubrics: A rubric is an authentic assessment tool used to measure students' work. It is a scoring guide that seeks to evaluate a student's performance based on the sum of a full range of criteria rather than a single numerical score. A rubric is a working guide for students and teachers, usually handed out before the assignment begins in order to get students to think about the criteria on which their work will be judged.

In classroom
  -both matrix and rubrics can be used in classroom as assessment tools. they can be used for grading students' performances and behavior.

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*Graphic Organizers
What is it?
  A visual display that demonstrates relationships between facts, concepts or ideas. A graphic organizer guides the learner’s thinking as they fill in and build upon a visual map or diagram. They are also informally used as a term to describe all visual learning strategies such as concept mapping, webbing, mind mapping, and more.

In classroom
  -they show students how to think about the information they are learning, make new information manageable by enabling students to chunk it to fit into their existing memory, and help students build connections and explore relationships to what they already know. Also, they help students recall information more readily.

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*Interviews& Conferences
what is it?
The school interview is one which tends to send the applicant’s parents rather than the applicant himself into a spin.
Conference is a formal meeting for discussing about teachers, students, & school

These are used for better situation and condition of relationship of between teachers, students, and parents, and school. Through these, most of things needed in school can be changed or improved.
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*Teacher-made tests
what is it?
Teacher made test are prepared by teacher with regard to curriculum .teacher made test may reveal specific areas of instruction in which a students need remedial help

In classroom
It can be used for appropriate instruction for students learning and can be used to assess students.

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*CNMI Standards and Benchmark test

what is it?
standards and benchmark test bring accountability to schools by measuring student learning against quantifiable standards. Teachers use the results of benchmark tests to modify their instruction as needed and to prepare students for end-of-the-year standardized achievement tests.

In classroom

these tests  can be used for student's understanding each contents by giving students variety of worksheets

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