Don't Assess a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree: Considerations and Strategies to Ensure Equitable Formative Assessment Practices for All Learners

Don't Assess a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree: Considerations and Strategies to Ensure Equitable Formative Assessment Practices for All Learners

Jennifer L. Kouo
ISBN13: 9781799803232|ISBN10: 1799803236|EISBN13: 9781799803249
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0323-2.ch006
Cite Chapter Cite Chapter

MLA

Kouo, Jennifer L. "Don't Assess a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree: Considerations and Strategies to Ensure Equitable Formative Assessment Practices for All Learners." Handbook of Research on Formative Assessment in Pre-K Through Elementary Classrooms, edited by Christie Martin, et al., IGI Global, 2020, pp. 117-133. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0323-2.ch006

APA

Kouo, J. L. (2020). Don't Assess a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree: Considerations and Strategies to Ensure Equitable Formative Assessment Practices for All Learners. In C. Martin, D. Polly, & R. Lambert (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Formative Assessment in Pre-K Through Elementary Classrooms (pp. 117-133). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0323-2.ch006

Chicago

Kouo, Jennifer L. "Don't Assess a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree: Considerations and Strategies to Ensure Equitable Formative Assessment Practices for All Learners." In Handbook of Research on Formative Assessment in Pre-K Through Elementary Classrooms, edited by Christie Martin, Drew Polly, and Richard Lambert, 117-133. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0323-2.ch006

Export Reference

Mendeley
Favorite

Abstract

The heterogeneity of students in today's classrooms present many obstacles when it comes to formatively assessing learning. The formative assessment cycle affords teachers numerous opportunities to measure student progress towards objectives, provide timely feedback, and make necessary adjustments to instruction. Formative assessments also provide considerable value to students, in the form of learning engagement, and tracking their own progress and planning of future steps. Due to the value of formative assessments in making decisions and supporting students, it is necessary that educators plan and utilize equitable assessment practices to eliminate unnecessary barriers students may face. The chapter will therefore discuss the obstacles that variable learners may experience that impede their inclusion in classrooms, the importance of the universal design for learning in ensuring engagement and multiple means of action and expression, and finally, bring awareness to students with disabilities and the importance of accommodations and modifications in their success.

Request Access

You do not own this content. Please login to recommend this title to your institution's librarian or purchase it from the IGI Global bookstore.