EDC 416 Assessment Methods

3 Credit(s)

This course is designed to provide licensure track students with the knowledge and skills needed to utilize assessment as a tool to enhance their own teaching as well as the engagement and learning of their PK-12 students. Through readings, observation, and work in their fieldwork classrooms, candidates will examine their own and society’s stances towards assessment while they are learning to craft, interpret, and utilize a variety of assessment tools geared to their content area(s) and the needs of the diverse range of students they will be working with as professional educators. Three lecture hours per week. Field-based assignments are required. Prerequisites: EDC 115, EDC 405, and acceptance into the licensure program.