Chapter five of Fair Isn’t Always Equal, titled “Tiering Assessments,” is a lengthy chapter that will serve me well in designing my curriculum. Because all instruction should be designed with the assessment of knowledge in mind, the type of assessment I choose is important. If I am going to ask my students to demonstrate their knowledge of Watchmen by categorizing the principal characters into broad archetypes, I have to be sure to have spent time during instruction focusing on the characters, and different examples of character archetypes. As an example of tiering the assessment, in order to make the question more challenging, I might ask students to give me an example of a character in another piece we have read who fits the same archetype as a character in Watchmen. These are important skills for me to have as an educator.
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