Chapter three of Fair Isn’t Always Equal talks very broadly and at length about assessments. Assessments are an important part of teaching. We can use all the fancy teaching methods we want, but if we don’t assess students appropriately, we can’t know that what we have been doing has been working. The most useful pieces of information to me in this chapter were the descriptions of the three different types of assessments: Pre-assessments, formative assessments, and summative assessments. In my six days watching Mr. Ryder’s methods, I have seen many examples of assessments, and I’m sure I will see many more. For example, there has been a vocabulary quiz. I believe this is a formative assessment, or a summative assessment. The time scale might be too short for it to be the latter, but it is testing material at the end of a section of learning. From here on out, I believe I will pay attention to what types various assessments fall into.
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