Assessment

[|Using testing to gain students' attention]

[|Assessment Through the Student's Eyes]

[|Never Say Anything a Kid Can Say]

Creativity Rigorous Students shouldn’t be aware that they’re being assessed.
 * Open ended
 * Demonstrate knowledge

Assessments should measure the level of understanding of the student. Know what they know. Correct intentional mistakes.

Understand...apply what they learn. Real world context, application and relevance.

Show the teacher the areas of weakness to address for reteaching.

Teach students to be teachers.

Assessments can include social interaction and groupwork.

Multiple Choice exams are cruel and unusual forms of punishment. We should employ multiple measures to assess the whole student and their understanding. Students should bubble over with passion and be thrilled when they show what they’ve learned.

Proper assessments are crafted only after careful consideration and creation of items that adequately address individual state standards. Assessment developers should pay close attention to creating test questions and multiple choice answers that are proven valid and reliable by statistical means.

Work that can’t be faked. Work that is personal. Work that actually results in creating someone who is a better job applicant, or, God forbid, just a better person.

Assessments should be a physical exam...not an autopsy. The unintended tragedy of the last decade is the assessment/data movement. We have been administering assessment of learning instead of assessment for leaning.

Assessments are a continuous dialogue between the teacher and student about progress toward agreed upon goals.

Assessment should be used not to validate instruction and classify learners, but to drive instruction and facilitate learning.

There is nothing wrong with students showing a little pass ion about their work and their favorite subjects. Multiple choice exams might measure something but it’s not competence or passion.