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    Minutes with Charlie - 16

    Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

                An 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, 2008

    One 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 [...]