Assessment FOR Learning
Minutes with Charlie Vol 2 No 5
Sunday, September 21st, 2008Classroom assessment offers teachers a tool which if used correctly makes the student a great benefactor and if used incorrectly makes the student a victim. In the last Minutes we looked at four ways we use classroom assessment and make students the benefactor of assessment. In this Minutes we examine how, regrettably, we often [...]
Minutes with Charlie Vol 2 No 4
Sunday, September 14th, 2008 Classroom assessment offers teachers a tool which if used correctly makes the student a great benefactor and if used incorrectly makes the student a victim.
Generally speaking when we have discussed classroom assessment for student learning we focus upon the quality of the assessment instrument.
The development of quality classroom assessments, while essential, [...]
Minutes with Charlie Vol 2 No 2
Monday, September 1st, 2008 Over the next few weeks in the Minutes with Charlie we are going examine some general principles regarding the use of classroom assessments to promote student learning.
This week we will consider that, “We must broaden our classroom assessments in order to avoid the narrowing of learning.” Conversely, we must broaden our assessments in [...]
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 [...]