Teacher Competency: Assessment Paper
Writer should have a working level of competence in the Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment of Nursing Students.
Table 1.1
a. choosing assessment methods appropriate for instructional decisions.
b. developing assessment methods appropriate for instructional decisions.
c. administering, scoring, and interpreting the results of both externally produced and teacher-produced assessment methods.
d. using assessment results when making decisions about individual students, planning, teaching, developing curriculum, and school improvement.
e. developing valid pupil grading procedures that use pupil assessments.
f. communicating assessment results to students, parents, other lay audiences, and other educators.
g. recognizing unethical, illegal, and otherwise inappropriate assessment methods and uses of assessment information.
INSTRUCTIONS
Answer the following questions in a narrative format:
• How do these standards (Table 1.1 above) apply to classroom and clinical assessment in nursing education?
• How comfortable as a nurse educator you think you are in meeting these standards in table 1.1?
• Discuss how you can apply these standards to both the classroom and clinical assessment.