A Teacher’s Guide To Performance Assessment
There are many forms of performance tasks: short and long constructed response, drawings and videos, interview.
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Using Homework As Formative Assessment
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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What A Data Wall Looks Like
Schools use data walls to identify students for interventions, visualize common trends in data, and set goals for where students should be.
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How To Use An iPad To Add Voice Comments To Grading
How Do You Use An iPad To Add Voice Comments To Grading? by TeachThought Staff Offering timely and effective learning feedback is a critical part of the learning process. This is a concept that’d seem to be more accessible than ever with technology, but sometimes technology is two steps forward, one step back. Take for example grading…
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6 Reasons Standardized Testing Is, At Best, Problematic
Standardization may enable consistent measurement, but it creates a nasty byproduct in the process: a distorted self-image.
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A Unique Approach To Pre And Post-Assessments
Constructing a pre- and post-assessment system helps you formally track how much progress you make within a given time period.
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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 Left Behind Act of 2001, most educators “agree that we have gone too far in placing too much emphasis on…
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How To Create Self-Grading Assessments Using Google Forms
Create self-grading assessments using Google Forms can be a time-saver for teachers committed to using data to revise instruction.
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10 Simple Assessments You Can Perform In 90 Seconds
From 3-2-1 to Do’s and Don’ts and concept maps, here are 10 simple assessments you can complete in about 90 seconds.
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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 the most powerful means of challenging students to think of what they already know is by using a problematic scenario….
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The Problem With Rubrics In Learning
The problem with rubrics in learning is that they’re often subjective and their point systems are often arbitrary.
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20 Tips To Reduce Student Anxiety
Back in October, we published an article about the importance of holistic teaching. When students are stressed, their capacity for learning is drastically reduced. In psychology, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs explains in part why anxious and depressed students are much more likely to fail. Even if the situation is not catastrophic, a student’s mind and body…
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16 Standardized Tests Being Used In Education Today
The Most Popular 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 that they aren’t reliable indicators of how successful students will…
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What Is Proficiency-Based Grading?
Proficiency-based grading is significantly different from the letter-grade system that most parents grew up with.
