Wiki+Update4

 Week 4 update:  Chapter 7 of Roes and Meyer's book addresses assessment as a major piece of the learning puzzle. The chapter focused on differentiation in format and media of assessment to create meaningful and valid assessments.  This is an important topic because,  teachers have to modify for students with learning disabilities as well as students who are gifted and talented, t  o ensure that every student is challenged and at the appropriate level. However, when benchmarks are not modified for any group, and standardized high stakes tests are the same way, they tend to yield inaccurate results for many students. Since they rely on a single medium they inadvertently confuse evaluation of students' talents that may not be relevant to instructional goals with the evaluation of their knowledge and skills .  A single test does not allow for a proper assessment of the abilities of high achieving students nor average achieving students. For one group, the test might be too easy, and for the other it might be too challenging, but neither group is assessed accurately. In addition, students have different learning styles and they can achieve better when they are tested through the appropriate medium that targets their affective networks.  .