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What are some alternate means of evaluating my child without testing?
Home » Home School » Homeschool Testing » What are some alternate means of evaluating my child without testing?Posted by Your Guide on March 15, 2006 5:20 PM
There are two main ways of assessing a student’s learning other than testing. These include portfolio and performance evaluations.
Portfolios can be organized in a number of ways. They are for the purpose of saving pieces of work and achievements accomplished during the year. Doing this can require a lot of work and possibly expense, but will provide the parent with an accurate record of what their student knows and also provide the student with a nice keepsake for the future. Performance evaluations look at the work students have produced over a period of time and the learning processes used to create the products. Students can be assessed both in how they work as individuals and how they do in a group effort.
Tape recordings are commonly used to capture samples of oral reading, narration and retelling, and how the student arrives at conclusions as they read works of both fiction and non-fiction.
Reading lists are also usually included as are a student’s responses to things they have read. Some families keep a notebook for each subject the student studies. For example, after a student reads a section from a history book, they write a response to it and/or draw a picture and include it in their history notebook.
You can be creative with both how you organize this method of evaluation as well as what your child does that you think should be included.
Sources
www.wikipedia.org
http://homeschooling.about.com
http://www.teachingmom.com
http://www.ghea.org
http://www.vahomeschoolers.org
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