Data
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 - 16
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008An important part of harvesting the benefits of a quality assessment program lies in the proper and effective use of data garnered from the assessments. In the last few Minutes we have examined the traits and development of summative assessments of assessment of learning. We will now examine the proper and effective use of [...]
Data Driven or Driven to Data?
Thursday, February 28th, 2008One of the essential purposes of quality classroom assessment is to produce and record data by which teachers and students can make instructional and learning decisions. We are quite accustomed to working with data derived from standardized assessment whether they be state assessments such as TAKS or local assessments such as district checkpoints. We have [...]