Assess Your Assessments
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
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Infographics on Easel.ly
Infographics on Easel.ly Create and share visual ideas online (Thanks for sharing this site Brittany!)
10 Ways e-Portfolios Increase Learning
10 Ways e-Portfolios Increase Learning In schools, the use of e-portfolios is increasing as a way to enable learning, as well as a means to measure it. See Admissions Revolution
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Building Our Learning Measures
Building Our Learning Measures This morning, our monthly vertical team meeting focused on building our capacity with two of our ‘expanded learning measures’ – formative assessment and e-portfolios. Here is
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Formative Assessment Tickets
Formative Assessment via Entry, Transfer, and Exit Tickets Formative Assessment = a range of formal and informal assessment procedures conducted by teachers during the learning process in order to modify
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9 Tips for Grading
The discussion and debate between numerical grades and standards based grading has been on the minds of our team a lot recently. As we look for new ways to expand
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Expanding the Learning Measures
How might we expand the ways we monitor student progress and the measures of learning beyond quantitative, numerical systems that are not always reliable? Since May, eight dedicated educators have engaged in four
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Why Assess (students, learners, teachers, anyone)?
In our team’s terrain meeting today, we were challenged by Bo to answer the question “Why Assess?” My thoughts are a mixture of actual current reasons, idealistic hopes, and simple
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How Do You Measure Learning?
Attempting to accurately measure one’s learning seems simple enough, but can actually be a rather elusive pursuit. How often do we challenge assumptions about our own experience and mental model
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