Chapter 10 goes over the importance of assessing students in a differentiated way, dealing with all of the multiple intelligences. It stresses the point of what is the use of teaching them in a differentiated way if you are only going to test them in a standard way? They may have learned the material in a way that was best suited to their learning style, but when tested in an opposite way all of that might as well have gone out the window. It further goes into different ways that you can assess how a student is doing in a particular area from observing particular actions or work they have done, along with how to relate assessment questions to each area of intelligence ( I particularly loved the Huck Finn examples).
This chapter gave me some good insight on what I will have to do if I expect to have a differentiated classroom, and how to assess that differentiated classroom. It showed the importance of not only teaching to address all students' intelligences, but to also assess them in the same way. If a student learns a subject in a way that suits his intelligence, but is only assessed in something the opposite, it is not assessing that student fairly. I really enjoyed the examples they gave on how to form questions to suit each learning style, and that is certainly something i will use in a future classroom.
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