Assessment Design: A Matrix To Assess Your Assessments
Assessment matrixes can be used by teachers to think about rigor when designing assessments to think more clearly about cognitive demand.
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What Do Teachers Do? What’s Their ‘Job’?
What am I expected to cause in students? What am I supposed to accomplish? Whatever the answer, that’s my job.
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The Changing Role Of The Teacher
Getting the conditions for self-directed learning right as a teacher requires an understanding of how people learn to think & problem-solve.
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46 Students Explain The Assignments That Got Their Attention This Year
I enjoy doing history projects that have to do with your own families history. It’s interesting and easier since it has a connection to you.
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Students Learn Best When You Do This
Want to know what kids need in order to learn better? Ask them: Here are the first 50 answers, unedited, from our typical high schooler.
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Fixing High School By Listening To Students
I can offer a fairly sobering picture of what ails the American high school, drawn from our student survey.
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Let’s Focus On Local Assessment
Let’s Focus On Local Assessment by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education If you agree that the track we are going down on high-stakes one-shot testing of every student in terms of Common Core is unproductive and unsustainable, I have a modest proposal to make about how to ditch the tests but move Common Core standards forward. Let’s use…
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2 Student Beliefs That Can Change Everything
We know the strong relationship between feedback & achievement. What about the one between feedback, personalization and, hence, motivation?
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9 Benefits Of Having More Teachers Than Classrooms
What if we hired 4 teachers for 3 classrooms? That would have enormous benefits of having more teachers than classrooms.
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It’s The Goal Of The Question That Matters
Few understand what validity means in assessment and how it is determined. This confusion leads to various unhappy and important consequences.
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The Definition Of Authentic Assessment For Learning
A ‘real-world’ assessment is meant to focus on the impact of one’s work in real or realistic–and often ‘messy’–contexts.
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What Standardized Tests In School Actually Measure
In a recent study, researchers examined the relationship between student cognition and school achievement as measured on standardized tests.
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Mandating The Posting Of Learning Targets & Other Mindless Policies
The bottom line test of the effect of any school policy about goal posting is whether or not students learn better because of it.
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The More I Lecture, The Less I Know If They Understand
The clearer I am about what I am saying and why, the more I may be blind to how unclear, confusing, or unhelpful the lecture is to a novice.
