Quality Assessment Components
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 - Eight
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Three questions confront students in the learning process. In order to succeed in the mission of learning, the students must be able to answer all three. A quality classroom assessment program provides the student with the answer to all three on a regular basis.
The second of the three questions is “Where am I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]