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Capstone-Standard 05 Meta-Reflection: Assessment

Laurie Pettengill James wrote 5 hours ago: Capstone Standard 05 Meta-Reflection: Assessment Assesses students’ mastery of curriculum and modifi … more →

Tags: (05) Assessment:, Assessment of learning, formative assessments, summative assessments

English 2 students' most significant learning experiences!

monaflognfeldt wrote 1 day ago: Our English 2 students are teachers in primary and lower secondary schools in Norway who are taking … more →

Tags: vocabulary development, English language pedagogy, vocabulary development

Formative Leadership: Using Formative assessment as a style of leadership2 comments

Bryn Williams wrote 1 week ago: Formative assessment and formative evaluation can lead nicely from the classroom to the building to … more →

Tags: Formative assessment, New School, Professional Development, Whole Child, leadership, formative leadership, assessment for leadership

Dr. Therese Hopfenbeck's week at Learn Today

ultadmin wrote 1 week ago: Dr. Therese Hopfenbeck, Lecturer in Educational Assessment at the Oxford University Centre for Educa … more →

Tags: learn-today, Universal Learn Today, Therese Hopfenbeck, Oxford, Teacher Development

How to get good grades in any assessment, by someone who has passed a lot of assessments

markcarver1984 wrote 2 weeks ago: Is it ever possible to avoid gaming the system? Despite it being clichéd in presentations, I’m … more →

Tags: Formative assessment, hidden curriculum, game the system, Learning Goals

Prepping for the 2013 AP Stats test: common student errors, Part 2

roughlynormal wrote 2 weeks ago: Ok:   two more questions to break down. Question 3:The goal of this question was to identify the cor … more →

Tags: AP, Formative assessment, Questions, Students

Comment Only Marking 4

marksmaths wrote 3 weeks ago: Success! We’ve now rolled out Comment Only Marking in Methods 2, Applied 3 and Methods 3 (like … more →

Tags: Dylan Wiliam, assessment for learning, comment only marking, Alfie Kohn

The 5 Min Plan

helanvictoria wrote 1 month ago:   I’ve attached the copies of what the children did in class. OK I saw on twitter the sug … more →

Tags: 5 Min Plan, autonomy, macbeth, AFL, cooperative learning for the teacher, Learning to Teach

Standardisation versus Creativity - Can they co-exist?

The Wang wrote 1 month ago: Project REAL staff rarely engage in the debate regarding the impact of standardisation on student en … more →

Tags: Student Voice, student creativity, Formative assessment

Assessment FOR/AS Learning VS Assessment OF Learning

lalabolintiam wrote 1 month ago: Authentic Assessment Contrast assessment AS/ FOR learning versus assessment OF learning; discuss the … more →

Tags: EDS113, Authentic Assessment, Assessment of learning, Assessment as Learning, formative summative assessment

Beware the Crocodiles3 comments

Gordon Baillie wrote 2 months ago: Why are monitor lizards called monitor lizards? … some monitors rear up on to their hind legs … more →

Tags: Education, Learning & Teaching, teacher support, Pedagogy, learning walks, Self - Evaluation, Professionalism, Feedback, monitoring

10 ways to use word clouds in the classroom1 comment

coventryenglish wrote 2 months ago: Word clouds are a popular way of representing information and they can be seen everywhere. But how c … more →

Tags: Teaching, technology, Reading 2, Writing #2, spelling, educational assessment", Education, Reading Comprehension, tag cloud

covert being5 comments

m lewis redford wrote 2 months ago:       not heard when Dad left not heard when friends talked about stuff not heard whe … more →

Tags: Poem, writing, 2011, identity, Love, being, Divorce, markbook, Acceptance

The Art (or Science) of Study Guides, Testing and Learning to Learn

Jeff wrote 2 months ago: Hubris. It happens to the best of us. This form of arrogance comes with being new to any profession, … more →

Tags: UBD, DI, High School, Social Studies, AP, Government and Politics, Differentiation Instruction, Understanding by Design, Unit Organizer

The Art (or Science) of Study Guides

Jeff wrote 2 months ago: Hubris. It happens to the best of us. This form of arrogance comes with being new to any profession, … more →

Tags: AP US Government, US Government, social studies education, grading, Concept Mastery, Testing, Rubrics, Understanding by Design, unit planning

What can Thomas the Tank Engine tell us about changing assessment?

markcarver1984 wrote 2 months ago: In 2008 my research involved a cultural audit of a university which, as I had to change names, I cal … more →

Tags: AFL, Change Management, managerialism, Fat Controller, sir topham hatt, cultural audit

Test Corrections

Mr. Grey wrote 2 months ago: Today one of my students asked me “Can we do test corrections to improve our grade?”.  A … more →

Tags: test corrections, Biology Activities, Teaching Biology, test, test corrections

Assessment FOR Creativity: What Would It Look Like?5 comments

Alane Starko wrote 2 months ago: Assessment is front and center in just about every educational venue today. Whatever we want to deve … more →

Tags: Creativity and Assessment, Assessment of learning, assessment for creativity, intrinsic motivation and assessment

Assessing creativity?

markshillitoe wrote 2 months ago: http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb13/vol70/num05/Assessing-Creativity.aspx … more →

Tags: Creativity


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