Assessing, Evaluating, and reporting on student progress

Assessment is a tool that provides teachers with information about the evidence of student learning. Assessment allows the student, teacher, and parents or guardians to observe this. The ultimate goal is to teach students how to evaluate themselves in independent situations, and learn how to assess their own progress.The Developmental Continuum of Literacy with ICT is both a planning tool and works as an assessment FOR/AS/OF learning. Teachers do this by including their observations, portfolios, and conversations that they have with their students.
Teachers use the inquiry process to focus their instruction on one or more of the Big Ideas of the continuum.Portfolios are used to accumulate evidence of their literacy with ICT. These portfolios could be either product or process portfolios ora combination of the two.(Paper or electronic). All portfolio's accumulater variety of assignments that will illustrate about the student's learning.
Conversations: Assessing students with ICT involves not only assessments through evidence of learning like portfolios and observations, but also with conversations. Descriptive Feedback, criteria and goal setting are important. Teachers observe and listen to conversations that students may have in group setting, one on one with the teacher, peer conversations, and self-reflective conversations. Three way student led conferences involving parents may also be included.