ABSTRACT
Summary
This chapter provides an overview of crucial issues that stress the importance of including differentiated assessment as a major part of instruction. It shows the interaction among learning, assessment, and evaluation, defines differentiated assessment, explains how teachers might use a six part process to plan differentiated assessments, and provides an overview of the new version of Bloom’s Taxonomy. It is important for teachers to remember that we have moved into the 21st Century and traditional thinking about how to plan instruction and how to assess student learning is changing. If teachers make differentiating assessment a priority, their students will have a better chance of gaining access to the culture of achievement that is necessary for surviving and thriving in our global society.
Note: Some of the strategies explained in this book are from a collection of assessment ideas I have gathered as a teacher. I have made every effort to determine their sources; however, if the originators of any of them feel they need to be cited, please contact me.
