Archive for December, 2007
Minutes with Charlie 2
Monday, December 17th, 2007In our last “Minutes with Charlie” we identified the five key components of quality assessments as: clear purpose, clear learning targets, sound assessment design, good communication, and student involvement. In these “Minutes” we are going to begin to look at these keys individually. Our overarching goal is to improve our assessment literacy as a district [...]
Minutes with Charlie 1
Monday, December 10th, 2007In the landmark study of 1998 on Assessment and Classroom Learning, Black and Wiliam posed three important questions. The first question was “Is there evidence that improving formative assessment raises standards?” The answer was a resounding “yes”. The second question was “Is there evidence that there is room for improvement?” Again the answer was an [...]