The True Purpose Of Testing in School
Beginning with the end (stating what the goal of a learning experience should be) can ease the ambiguity of assessment’s role in the process.
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Beginning with the end (stating what the goal of a learning experience should be) can ease the ambiguity of assessment’s role in the process.
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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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There are (at least) 3 aspects of rigorous assessments: appropriateness, purpose, and promotion of understanding.
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Homework is only formative if it recurs as a task in which I can learn from feedback to improve at the ‘same’ task. This is easily accessible.
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Functionally, the purpose of assessment is to provide data to revise planned instruction. Of course, it’s not that simple.
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There are many ways to differentiate instruction, from flexible grouping to multiple assessments and improving student choice.
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‘Not knowing’ is clumsy, precise label for the starting point of learning. Teaching is, at least in part, establishing the need to know.
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It’s difficult to teach if it’s unclear what students actually understand–and multiple-choice tests aren’t enough. Here are 50 alternatives.
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Planning For Creativity: 4 Simple Strategies You Can Master by Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed., radteach.com; edited by Terry Heick Albert Einstein said, “Imagination
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Having a solid base in theory makes sense but the questions he was getting–“Why did you become a teacher?”–seemed only vaguely useful.
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