MSE 8805 Performance Assessment

This course provides candidates with essential knowledge and skills related to appropriate assessment strategies and helps candidates understand how to equitably and effectively assess student learning. Candidates learn how to make data-driven decisions that align with both curricular goals and student instructional needs, and to use data to reflect on the effectiveness and quality of their own teaching. Candidates learn how to use data to help solve instructional problems such as closing the learning/achievement gaps that are indigenous to most classrooms. The course aligns with the requirements of the PPAT, which will help the candidate to be prepared to meet data collection and analysis expectations that will be encountered during student teaching. This course must be taken concurrently with Practicum II.