by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education Common Core Assessment: When Teaching Gets In The Way Of Reading Comprehension Readers of the blog no doubt know that the title of this post refers to the general discussions taking…
Assessment
5 Basic Tips To Reduce Student Test Anxiety
Tests aren’t going away anytime soon, and as the stakes increase, when the time for tests rolls around everybody in the classroom can get a little edgy. Teachers need all the help they can find…
12 Strategies For Critical Assessment
Critics of the U.S. education system have set out to determine which evaluation method produces data that best captures the way students learn and the way they progress toward classroom goals. Since the No Child…
5 Myths About Standardized Test Preparation You Should Avoid
by Grant Wiggins, authenticeducation.org April is test-prep month (apparently). So, what better use of this blog than to provide harried readers with some test-prep tips? But beware: the tips I am going to provide are very…
How To Create A Test That Grades Itself Using Google Forms
How To Create Self Grading Assessments With Google Forms Google Forms isn’t the first thing you think of when you think of assessment. It’s not especially elegant, it won’t wow students, and the learning curve…
10 Assessments You Can Perform In 90 Seconds
Good assessment is frequent assessment. Any assessment is designed to provide a snapshot of student understand—the more snapshots, the more complete the full picture of knowledge. On its best day, an assessment will be 100%…
Moving Beyond KWL Charts To Assess Prior Knowledge
by John Barell, morecuriousminds.com Recently, a curriculum coordinator at a Montreal IB World school asked me how we might assess students’ prior knowledge without using the standard KWL chart format. It occurred to me that one of…
6 Common Misunderstandings About Assessment Of Learning
by Iain Lancaster, TeachThought Intern Over the past two decades there has been a lot written, and much discussion, around the use effective use of assessment in the classroom. Unfortunately many educators, particularly at the…
7 Innovative Strategies To Create Learning Badges
Learning badges are pretty cool. On the surface they seem a bit like the gold stars of yesteryear, and they are–but they’re better. A badge is simply a visual icon that represents something–a talent, skill, achievement,…
How To Create A Rubric That Does What You Want It To
by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D., Authentic Education How To Create A Rubric That Does What You Want It To Just what is a rubric? And why do we call it that? A rubric is a set of…
16 Standardized Tests Being Used In Education Today
Once, the ACT and SAT were big factors in determining whether or not you’d get into the school of your choice, but today schools are moving away from these tests, in large part because research has shown…
The Real Problem With Multiple-Choice Questions
The multiple-choice problem is becoming a bit of an issue. While it has been derided by educators for decades as incapable of truly measuring understanding, and while performance on such exams can be noticeably improved…
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