Chapter five of Fair Isn't Always Equal was about tiering assessments and adjusting them to fit the cognitive needs of students. Sometimes students are not able to accomplish assigned tasks because of their intellectual capacities. Other times, the students can excel with the task at hand and probably need to be more challenged. In cases similar to these, an educator should tier the assessment to meet the necessary needs of the students. The chapter gave numerous examples and scenarios for how a teacher could tier. For example, one teacher could use a learning menu, a tic-tac-toe board, cubing, RAFT(s), and a summarization pyramid. All of the following tools can help a teacher tier assignments for students. Educators should always bounce ideas off of their colleagues to get a new perspective. I found this chapter extremely valuable in giving me new ideas on how to tier my assessments for my students. Actually, tiering assessments is quite similar to actually giving the students authentic assessments. The chapter did a great job using examples and scenarios to put the content into a real-world perspective and I know that I will use this chapter as a reference very often.
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