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For this week reading assignments, I enjoyed some insightful information that help to increase the accuracy and fairness of classroom assessments (Rose, D., & Meyer, A. 2002, //Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning//, Chapter 7). It is true that a lot of us create the same written test to all students. According to Rose and Meyer, when teachers create the universal test, it does not represent the accuracy with the skills teachers tend to measure. We can not use the concept “one size fits all” since each student has individual learning differences. There are suggestions to use media constrainst to assess student progress which I find it is very interesting. I think a lot of teachers would go beyond the traditional assessments for our students success.

The media categories recommended such as architectural knowledge and drawing, advertising knowledge and animation, and music knowledge and sound. The article provides quite a few good tips to help increasing student assessment accuracy and accessibility through UDL. I agree that technology definitely enables teachers to provide multiple presentations as well as the flexibility in the context of ongoing assessment. We have all the tools and strategies plan out for us, the question is “Are we willing to incorporate technology into the assessment?”