Performance Assessment

WGU C913

B1. Case 367: Identifying and Understanding Figurative Language

B1. In this video the teacher is assessing the students by allowing them to interact with one another and match parts of a sentence. She created this assessment after previously teaching these concepts to the students. In his assessment, the teacher had the students work together to match parts of a sentence, then decide if the sentence was a simile, personification, metaphor, or hyperbole. The teacher was assessing if the students retained the knowledge of what each of these types of sentences were. By using this type of assessment, the teacher was able to see which students needed further assistance with the concepts and which students had...