Chapter Thirteen Reflection

One of the key concepts in this chapter was to identify achievement targets related to unit goals and objectives for instruction in technology-enhanced instruction. This section stressed the importance of gathering accurate and relevant information when assessing student work. There are five specific achievement targets that were identified by Stiggins (2005). These include knowledge of subject matter, reasoning ability, performance skills, creation of products, and dispositions of students toward the content knowledge and understandings.

I know in many elementary schools, they use systems such as S, S+, and S-, or some other grading criteria that involves categories for proficiency, non-proficiency and superior proficiency. These seem like somewhat vague grading criteria and I wonder how much information needs to be gathered in order to make this kind of judgment of young children.

I think this section helped me to realize that it is very important to make specific requirements in order to grade children fairly and objectively. I also realized that I wrote a response to the wrong chapter before this.