Assessments are an essential part of instruction. They provide the means to check whether the goals of the instruction are being met. The goal of assessment is to obtain a sound inference about what a student knows, understands, and can do. Assessments should be without bias to the students, in other words, they should be fair. What is a fair assessment? Fairness is the equitable and just treatment of those being assessed. An assessment that is fair is not unduly influenced by factors or conditions that are unrelated to the learning objectives that the assessment intends to measure. When it comes to learning, I believe that all students have the ability to learn given the right environment. I fully subscribe to Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences. Gardner proposed his theory in 1983, suggesting that all people have different kinds of intelligences. People are not only intellectually intelligent, but they are also musically, interpersonally, spatial-visual, and lin...
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