Assess Your Assessments matrix by Grant Wiggins
Questions about the matrix
does ‘support your answer’ always fall into ‘far transfer’?
what does near and far transfer mean?
what mode of assessment works best for middle school students?
can a selected response go beyond recall and inference?
what do you fill into the empty boxes? just a check mark or a score?
how does a teacher include a variety of each format? throughout the year?
i wonder if gold standard pbl checks all of the boxes.
i wonder what an ill-structured problem looks like.
can assessments overlap in categories?
Ideas
mini and informal assessments are under-utilized
i see the need for a variety of assessments
making a product leads to ‘far transfer’
we cannot teach apart from context
i think i can combine several types of responses into one test
i think teachers need great intuition, awareness, and training to select appropriate assessments for different tasks