BAST 360 - Assessment for Learning

5 credits

Prerequisites
Admission to the BAST program.

Using state and national curriculum standards, grade level expectations and teaching frameworks as tools, participants will explore principles of sound assessment. Participants will design and implement a variety of assessment strategies aimed at monitoring and improving learning. Participants will reflect on potential linguistic and cultural biases within different assessment strategies. Participants will also examine Washington’s evaluation requirements, criteria, four-tiered performance rating system, and the preferred instructional frameworks used to describe the evaluation criteria. This course will include opportunities to reflect on practicum observation.

Theory Hours
5 theory hours.

Course Outcomes

Identify and describe the purpose of educational assessment and determine appropriate assessment tools for measuring student progression
Identify, explain, and apply the major principles of sound educational assessment, including planning, teaching, measuring, and reporting

Note
BAST degree course.