Pretend you’re a teacher in Ohio.  As a teacher, your job is to educate the children in your class.  You do this through a variety of methods – talking, listening, correcting, etc. – but it always includes some form of assessment of the students’ knowledge.  An assessment takes many forms, but it is always used to gauge how well the students have learned AND is used by you, the teacher, to assess your own teaching and where you may need to reteach and improve your own knowledge going forward.  The way you do this is by looking at the assessments […]