CC Assessment: Formative, Summative, and Standardized
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Performance Assessments
I’ve long been a fan of Bloom’s Taxonomy…not necessarily for all the ways it has been pushed into different fads throughout the years, but instead for the way that it helps me (and my students) think about the learning process. It helps me approach the learning process in a more holistic way, ensuring that I don’t camp out in one way of thinking and evidencing learning for too long. I think it is human nature to get excited about one way of thinking and suddenly everything we do falls into that.
Bloom’s Taxonomy Multiple Graphic Organizers
Sample Items and Performance Tasks | Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
Smarter Balanced sample items illustrate the rigor and complexity of the English language arts/literacy and mathematics items and performance tasks students will encounter on the Consortium’s next-generation assessments.
Wiggins on transfer and how it relates to testing
There is some understandable confusion about the goal of transfer.
DWECK: Growth Mindset to Overcome Failure
By KEN BAIN Many people think of intelligence as static: you are born with lots of brains, very few, or somewhere in between, and that quantum of intelligence largely determines how well you do in school and in life. Getty Images
Core assessments | Beyond the Bubble
This assessment gauges students’ ability to source , contextualize , and corroborate a document.
Smarter Balanced Assessments | Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium is developing a system of valid, reliable, and fair next-generation assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English language arts/literacy (ELA/literacy) and mathematics for grades 3-8 and 11.
MCAS writing 2013 in 4, 7 and 10
In accordance with the 2011 ELA Framework, students in grades 4 will be assessed in one of the following modes: narrative, expository, or opinion. Students in grade 7 will be assessed in one of the following modes: narrative, expository, or argument.439-300×199.jpg” alt=”" width=”300″ height=”199″ />Performance Task Assessment, sometimes referred to simply as Performance Assessment, is coming soon in a substantial and significant way to K-12 schooling; 21st century principals and other educational leaders would do well to familiarize themselves with this method and began to make plans for successful integration of this new, alternative format of assessments .
10 things to consider about Performance Task Assessment, Coming Soon
What Was the Question To Which PARCC Is the Answer?
I. The Absence of ComplexityMatt Townsley asked : Carol Boston says "Black and Wiliam (1998b) define assessment broadly to include all activities that teachers and students undertake to get information that can be used diagnostically to alter teaching and learning. Under this definition, assessment encompasses teacher observation, classroom discussion, and analysis of student work, including homework and tests.
Response: Ways To Include Students In The Formative Assessment Process - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo
Published Online: August 14, 2012 Includes correction(s): August 14, 2012