27 Characteristics Of Authentic Assessment. 27 Characteristics Of Authentic Assessment by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education.
AP and PBL: It Works! I know that many project-based learning teachers are fearful of fully embracing PBL due to the expectations around standardized testing.
We need to honor that fear, because it's not coming from a bad place. PBL Pilot: Matching PBL With Traditional Grading. Editor's Note: Matt Weyers and co-author Jen Dole, teachers at Byron Middle School in Byron, Minnesota, present the fifth installment in a year-long series documenting their experience of launching a PBL pilot program.
Project-based learning has been wonderful. Students are self-reporting how they're experiencing a deeper level of learning, and parents are saying that their children are actively (and often voluntarily) elaborating on their learning outside of school. MakingLearningVisibleResources - home. MakingLearningVisibleResources - Ladder of Feedback. Educational Leadership:Multiple Measures:Why Every Student Needs Critical Friends. The final bell rings on the last day of class before the semester break.
Students stream out of the room as the teacher stands by the door. Glancing back at her desk, she sighs. It is piled high with posters, compact discs, index cards, and papers, the stack so tall that half of it falls to the floor in a heap. Educational Leadership:Feedback for Learning:Seven Keys to Effective Feedback. Rubrics. Why Flunking Exams Is Actually a Good Thing. Photo Imagine that on Day 1 of a difficult course, before you studied a single thing, you got hold of the final exam.
The motherlode itself, full text, right there in your email inbox — attached mistakenly by the teacher, perhaps, or poached by a campus hacker. No answer key, no notes or guidelines. Just the questions. Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding. What strategy can double student learning gains? According to 250 empirical studies, the answer is formative assessment, defined by Bill Younglove as "the frequent, interactive checking of student progress and understanding in order to identify learning needs and adjust teaching appropriately. " Unlike summative assessment, which evaluates student learning according to a benchmark, formative assessment monitors student understanding so that kids are always aware of their academic strengths and learning gaps.
Meanwhile, teachers can improve the effectiveness of their instruction, re-teaching if necessary. How Tests Make Us Smarter. Using formative tools for better project results SmartBlogs. In a high-school art room, I watched a student working at an easel.
When I asked about her progress, she explained that she was attempting to paint sunflowers in the style of Monet, her favorite artist. She told me she liked how the flowers were looking but said the vase was giving her trouble. She planned to keep reworking it, applying layers of acrylic until she got the play of light just the way she wanted.
The Right Questions, The Right Way. 15 assessments that don’t suck… Movies have sequels.
Bands have compilation releases. Bloggers have new posts with links to old ones…and to hype them they put words like “suck” in the title….ahhh…even better…a number in the title! Just went back and renamed the post. Welcome to “15 assessments that don’t suck.” At a recent edcamp I put up a session entitled “Assessments that don’t suck.” Please remember….when doing an activity for the first time you must do it along with the kids. Everything in RED is a hyperlink, click on the links for more info RSA VideosRSA videos are a huge crowd pleaser. Note card ConfessionsI am still tweaking this in my head for next year. Full class music videosWhat can I say…my favorite. Commoncraft Style VideosI haven’t done Common Craft Style videos in a couple years, but it is a neat gateway project for teachers looking to do something different.
6 BIG Assessment (AFL) Practices. The Best Resources On Grading Practices. This is the last — for now, at least — “The Best…” list in my student assessment series (though, of course, I’ll be adding new resources to each of them on an ongoing basis).
Here are the previous posts in the series: The Best Resources For Learning About Performance Assessment The Best Resources For Learning About Formative Assessment. Leadership for Grading Practices in the Differentiated Classroom. By Rick Wormeli Asking teachers for their grade books so you can assess their implementation of standards-based grading practices can shoot defensive walls sky high.
Declaring that homework cannot count in a final report-card grade may pull the safety pin on a faculty grenade. To complete the war analogy, open discussion of grading practices is often an emotional minefield. Feedback for Learning:Seven Keys to Effective Feedback. Ways to Include Students in the Formative Assessment Process. Improving Written Feedback. This week I gave a seminar at TeachMeet Clevedon.
I am going to post more fully on my topic of teachers getting better by undertaking ‘deliberate practice‘ sometime soon. One smaller aspect of my presentation was how teachers can improve written feedback, both to improve learning and to marginally reduce the time taken to give written feedback. How the Transactional Approach to Instruction Helps Build Independent Learners.
How Can We Make Assessments Meaningful? I think meaningful assessments can come in many shapes and sizes. In fact, to be thoroughly engaging and to draw the best work out of the students, assessments should come in different formats. Thankfully, with the Common Core standards exemplifying the 4Cs -- Creativity and Critical Thinking (through performance-based assessments), Collaboration, and Communication (through the use of interdisciplinary writing) -- we are looking at a more fluid future in testing formats. As long as the format itself is aligned with real-world skills, a meaningful assessment does not need to be lockstep with a particular structure any more. When I think about my own definition of a "meaningful assessment," I think the test must meet certain requirements. The assessment must have value other than "because it's on the test. " Feedback to the Future, with Tools Students Really Use.
20 Education Administrator Blogs You Should Start Following Right Now. The 50 Best Blogs for Future Teachers 16.57K Views 0 Likes Jumping into the teaching profession certainly poses quite the potential for intimidation.