Archive for January, 2008
Minutes with Charlie 5
Monday, January 28th, 2008Much has been said, written, discussed, and debated regarding the concepts “Assessment OF Learning” and “Assessment FOR Learning”. It seems that the more these broad types of assessment are discussed, the more confusion seems to reign. It appears to me that one of the most common and most destructive confusions is the view that [...]
Minutes with Charlie 4
Monday, January 21st, 2008 We now approach an often overlooked, vitally important, underestimated, misunderstood, incredibly powerful fifth key to quality classroom assessment: student involvement.
The single most important user of assessment results is the student. Yet, all too often the student gets only a grade that at best is an ambiguous report of the result of enigmatic assessment [...]
Minutes with Charlie 3
Monday, January 14th, 2008 We continue with our discussion of the five keys of quality assessment. We have already mentioned the first key of a clear purpose of the assessment and the second key of having a clearly defined, articulated, and understood learning targets.
As mentioned previously the third key centers upon a sound assessment design. Most of [...]