Teaching Portfolio for John Emanuelson

  Assessment is an integral part of the human experience and we are constantly doing it.  For instance, whether is internally checking how our physiological reactions are affecting our emotions, judging the food at a restaurant, or watching the local sports team lose to their arch rival, we are performing some sort of assessment.  Even though we are continuously engaged in doing this behavior, the term assessment can be loaded and it can cause anxiety in the person being assessed.   Therefore, some formative assessments (ex: thumbs up/down, informal chat, etc.) can be conducted so that the person being assessed is unaware.  That is the great thing about formative assessments- they are ongoing and often provide an abundance of data that might not be accessible through more traditional means such as summative assessments.   Prior to taking this course, I was not familiar with the term formative assessment nor how to conduct them.  Since taking...

To be successful in the modern world, it is essential that students learn to collaborate .  One was to teach students to work together is by having them work together in small groups.  There are different ways to group students and each method has its positives and negatives .  For simplicity's sake, I will focus on heterogeneous (different) and homogeneous (same) groupings, and these will be reflected in the six sample data sets below as well as a Padlet presentation on using assessment to inform assessment. Presentation of Student Grouping and Data (Padlet) Sample Data Set- Grouping Spreadsheet (Whole Class) Sample Data Set- Heterogeneous Groupings Sample Data Set- Homogenous Groupings Sample Data Set- Heterogenous Mixed Groupings Sample Data Set- Heterogenous Quiz Groupings Sample Data Set- Heterogenous Homework Groupings