Checklist

Checklist

A check list is a tool that state specific criteria, allowing teachers and students to gather information and to make judgments about what students know and what they do not know. They offer systematic ways of collecting data about specific behaviors, knowledge, and skills.

The quality of information acquired through the use of checklists is highly dependent on the quality of the descriptors chosen for assessment. Their benefit is also dependent on students’ direct involvement in the assessment and understanding of the feedback provided. Having a complete understanding of what they learned or not, there are checklists that are to assess the students work, to know if he accomplished with the requirements. Checklists like the one who is below, helps you to know if students complied with the portfolio and its requirements. 

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Checklist

Using checklist helps you observe if you accomplished with what you were asked for, it is nice tool that helps you as self-assessment, in order to observe in what you did well and what was wrong, also they are usually presented with a yes/no format, where teachers just tick on the requirements that the student accomplished satisfactorily. One thing that must be clear, is that a checklist is just to assessment, because if its used in evaluation, might be very ambiguous, because there is no grading, just yes/no, in my opinion using checklist is more to help the teacher if the student did all his work, of if the format of an assignment was complete and well structured.