Course Syllabus

EDU 515: Educational Assessment

Fall 2016 Semester

 

Instructor: Edward J. Vinski

Day/Time: Tuesday 4:50pm-7:35pm

Office: E306                        

Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday  9:25-10:10 am

Tuesday and Thursday 4:00-4:45

                       

Phone: (631) 687-1470

E-mail: evinski@sjcny.edu

 

Course Description: This course provides an overview of strategies for assessing

student performance including the use of selected-response items and various

performance-based techniques.  Students will learn and incorporate strategies used to

assess various literacy and other strategies in the content area in a secondary school

classroom.  The impact of multiple intelligences, differentiated instruction, and learning

styles on assessment processes will be investigated.  Topics such as standardized testing,

New York State assessments, portfolios and electronic portfolios will be discussed.

 

Prerequisites: EDU 121: Teaching Adolescents with Exceptionalities, its equivalent, or departmental permission.                  

 

Required Texts: 

 

Airasian, P. W. and Russell, M.K. (2008). Classroom Assessment:

Concepts and Applications (7^th ed.).  Boston: McGraw Hill

 

American Psychological Association (2001). Publication manual of the american 

Psychological association (6th ed.).  Washington, DC: Author.

 

Other Sources:

Postman, R. D. (2015). Barron’s NYSTCE: EAS, ALST, Multi-Subject CST, Overview   of the edTPA (4th edition). New York: Barron’s

 

NYS Math Standards: http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/common_core_standards/pdfdocs/nys_p12_cclsm_3_24_11.pdf

 

SJC Secondary Education Student Handbook:

http://www.sjcny.edu/media/FallSecondaryEd.pdf

 

Common Core Standards

http://www.corestandards.org/

http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/common_core_standards/