Tag: Grant Wiggins
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.
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.
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…
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?
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.
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.
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.
Mandating The Posting Of Learning Targets & Other Mindless…
The bottom line test of the effect of any school policy about goal posting is whether or not students learn better because…