Educational Assessment Question 3

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We reside in a dynamic world where change is one of the few constant things. Both natural and artificial resources are getting more scarce and expensive each day. The race for survival is real. Life is getting difficult, and only the smartest and strongest remain dominant over others. Fortunately, there exist various remedies to this predicament. One of the most effective ways is education. It makes an individual knowledgeable in a broad or specific field, so much so that he/she becomes a valuable asset. However, it also has several hurdles that sometimes tend to prevent the acquisition of quality education. The responsible parties had to come up with what is known as educational assessment. Its objective is to check the quality, accountability, skills attained, attitudes displayed by learners and so forth and forth. This paper will discuss k-12 educational assessment goals and touch on alternate forms for special populations relating to my school district. Moreover, it will touch on the use of technology in a bid to meet the K-12 assessment goals.

Assignment 1 Revision

It was about parental involvement in all school issues. It revealed that parents perform a pertinent part in the overall success of a given student. It showed that most children who don’t spend much time with them failed and portray social problems. On the contrary, those who were close to their parents displayed sterling performances. (Hornby, 2011)

Brief Overview

K to 12 is a program formulated to assess kindergarten and the primary education that typically take 12 years to complete. Its main objective is to check the progress of a student in school (quality, self-reflection, and overall accountability). It is a holistic endeavor that tries to find out whether the students are taught by their teachers to the required standards. It has four levels; knowledge, skills, understanding, and performances.

Topic Relevance

Parental involvement in my school district is fundamental towards the attainment of all the k-12 goals. Research shows that parents and guardians play an enormous role in the social life and educational progress of their children. They act as expert guides, role models, confidants and mentors among others. Though, some challenges normally spring up and limit parent-child relationship, it has been found out they take part mostly in the success of their kids’ learning. (Hornby, 2011) Listed below are the school’s goals and how parents aid in accomplishing them.

· Critical thinking. Students are expected to develop a liberal mind that can generate several insights when the need arise. Parents can help their children develop the prowess of achieving this characteristic by exposing them to various events or situations and asking them for their opinions.

· Creativity and curiosity. These traits don’t just come. Parents, who take their time assisting their children in playing games, solving puzzles or completing tests that enhance the factors as mentioned above, report positive feedback. (Khosrow-Pour, 2013)

· Respect and responsibility. Virtues such as these are a value in our society. They are essential in building reputation and career. Their perfection starts at home. How a parent will teach his/her child their importance and correct them whenever necessary matters a lot.

· Exhibition of confidence. We all need to be courageous so that we can be able to face challenges that we encounter from time to time. Moreover, we need it to stand out from the rest especially when addressing a group of people.

· Parents also have the responsibility of ensuring that their children set their goals that will enable them to manage themselves, use communication effectively, comprehend the nature of knowledge and have a deep understanding of what they learn in school. (Gardner, J. (2012)

Reasons for Topic Selection

Firstly, there are worries all over the social media that education quality is becoming poorer each day. The general populace is wondering why. Currently, it has been noted that the connection between parents and their children fade away as they grow older. Furthermore, some parents are either too busy or reluctant to conduct a follow-up of their children. It is no doubt that that their influence is significant in accomplishing the goals of k-12 assessment. (Hornby, 2011)

Secondly, as already discussed, parental involvement in school-related matters contribute a high percentage in meeting the objectives. Finally, my aim was to create an awareness of enhancing the role of parents in spearheading the lives of their children. (Hornby, 2011) Doing this adequately can improve education to a vast extent. Many lives will change and our future generations will enjoy better livelihoods.

The traditional methods of assessment only apply to regular students. Consideration has been taken on those with various disabilities that range from physical to mental. It gave rise to the birth of alternative assessment methods. They have been modified to favor the challenged children so that fairness is practiced. Most of them would not pass if they were assessed by employing the usual techniques. (Gardner, J. (2012)

Strategies That Utilize Use of Technology

Apart from parental involvement, other factors such as the application of technology in classrooms can help a school meet the requirements of k-12. The following are some strategies that can be used by educators to see that this happens.

· Creating awareness of the preponderance of using technology in the modern world. They can do this via social platforms available in the school. For example the school website and Facebook group.

· Using technology where possible so that they can act as good examples for the students. As they do so, they will also get motivated and desire to apply it too. (Alam, 2014)

· Finally, they can use their position to persuade the parents to support their children both financially and morally on matters dealing with the technology-(some devices may need purchasing). In addition to that, they can request the government for adequate funding and directions. (Alam, 2014)

REFERENCES

Alam, F. (2014). Using technology tools to innovate assessment, reporting, and teaching practices in engineering education.

Gardner, J. (2012). Assessment and learning. Los Angeles [i.e. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications.

Hornby, G. (2011). Parental involvement in childhood education: Building effective school-family partnerships. New York: Springer

Khosrow-Pour, M. (2013). Cases on assessment and evaluation in education. Hershey PA: Information Science Reference.