4a Reflects on teaching. 4b Maintains accurate records. 4c Communicates with families. Assessment can either be formal, such as a test or quiz, or informal, such as having a student explain their process to a solution. I feel that both forms of assessment, formal and informal, are equally important.
Informal assessments ensure that the student is constantly learning and on task while at school.
Also, informal assessment can help foster the social development of students. For example, grouping students can have them develop communication skills with others while their peers make sure that they are correctly performing tasks. The artifacts demonstrating my knowledge of assessment are a scope and sequence chart, a class profile, a pre and posttest, and a critiqued evaluation of this pre and posttest, and lesson plans for the unit where the pre and posttests were administered. All of these artifacts are from the same class.