Student Involvement
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 9
Tuesday, March 4th, 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 first of the three questions is “Where am I [...]
Minutes with Charlie 6
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 “Student involved classroom assessment” should be as normal in our classrooms as “student involved classroom learning”. Yet, as we strive to insure the student is actively engaged in learning we have not taken steps to likewise insure that the student is involved in assessment.
We easily see where and why students should be involved [...]
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 [...]