Designing the Classroom Curriculum Designing the Classroom Curriculum | Page 95

Lynch, Smith, Howarth falls into one of four categories of assessment: tests, product, performance and self-assessments. The sum of assessment instruments used becomes the assessment strategy. The key point in understanding the notion of a classroom curriculum is that assessment and the associated reports are planned and outlined in the classroom curriculum development process. Or, from a pedagogical standpoint, the processes of assessment and reporting always occur within the context of a plan for teaching and the classroom curriculum is the device used to capture and organize this premise. With this point in mind the first task in learning how to assess and report is to understand the mechanics of the classroom curriculum and how assessment and reporting are dealt with in this context. In the chapter which follows we examine the foundations of the classroom curriculum by first exploring the concept of Learning Management. 1. What role does assessment play when a teacher compiles information for LMQ1 in the Learning Design Process? 2. What are examples of assessment instruments? 3. Is there a correlation between the defined learning outcomes (LMQ2) and the chosen assessment instrument? Explain? 95