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Thomas Brandt

Deeper Learning: Performance Assessment and Authentic Audience | Edutopia - 0 views

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    If the students don't recognize assessments as a chance to show their learning, then these things aren't even assessments; they're something altogether alien to real learning. Fortunately, there are many approaches we can take within our own classrooms to change this situation.
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Assessment as a Means for Developing a Sense of Achievement - 0 views

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    Assessment should be a continuous feedback loop, one that is integrated into the learning process, and where the feedback improves the competency of the learner. Assessments should be used as opportunities to develop competencies and the related sense of achievement.
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Incorporating Authentic Assessment - 0 views

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    The faculty resource "quick tip" page from Park University gives a concise view of incorporating authentic assessment along with traditional assessments of learning.
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Formative Assessment Examples - 0 views

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    The formative assessment process guides teachers in making decisions about future instruction. Here are a few examples that may be used in the classroom during the formative assessment process to collect evidence of student learning.
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Authentic Assessment Resources - 0 views

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    New York's School of the Future shares their assessment plans and rubrics, classroom projects, schedules, web links, and other resources to help you implement "authentic" assessment today.
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Methods for Assessing Learning Targets - 0 views

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    A table adapted from Student-Involved Assessment for Learning that gives a picture of how appropriate various assessment methods are for a variety of learning target types
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Assessment In The 21st-Century Classroom - 0 views

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    Presentation on Assessment and Feedback in the 21st Century Classroom.
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Continuum of Classroom Assessment Methods - 0 views

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    A table illustrating the characteristics of various assessment tools on a continuum from more structured / de-contexualized to less structured / more contextualized.
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Classroom Assessment: Minute by Minute, Day by Day - 0 views

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    The authors advocate for strategies that shift assessment from quality control to quality assurance.
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Feedback for Learning: Seven Keys to Effective Feedback - 0 views

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    To improve formative assessment practices among both teachers and assessment designers, we need to look more closely at just what feedback is-and isn't.
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Courageous Conversation: Formative Assessment and Grading - 0 views

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    With all the education action around Standards-Based Instruction, Understanding By Design, Assessment for Learning, Grading for Learning, Project-Based Learning, Competency-Based Instruction and more, we need to have a frank conversation about formative assessment and grading.
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Assessment Professional Development Guide - 0 views

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    An overview of the Edutopia professional development guide for understanding the many ways to assess student learning in the classroom.
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Three Steps for Improving Teacher Questions | Edutopia - 0 views

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    This article explains three specific actions that we can take to improve our questions. To begin with, we need to get students talking rather than the teacher talking. Second, prepare the questions when you plan the lesson. And third, scaffold the questions.
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Innovative Educators Don't Say, "Hand It In." They say, "Publish It! - 0 views

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    It takes more than collecting data or creating on computers to be a 21st century school. If educators are not having students publish regularly in thoughtful, authentic, and relevant places they are NOT preparing them for today or tomorrow.
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Six Ways to Look at Badging Systems Designed for Learning - 0 views

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    This blog post delineates the various interests aligned with badges, and make distinctions amongst the different goals people have for them in hopes of developing a more comprehensive and informed understanding of the emerging badging ecology.
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A Taxonomy of Reflection: A Model for Critical Thinking - 0 views

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    Reflection can be a challenging endeavor. It's not something that's fostered in school - typically someone else tells you how you're doing! At best, students can narrate what they did, but have trouble thinking abstractly about their learning - patterns, connections and progress.
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High Tech Reflection Strategies Make Learning Stick - 0 views

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    Routinely asking students to ponder -- deeply and seriously -- what and how they've learned could be the "mind's strongest glue."
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The Importance of Student Journals and How to Respond Efficiently - 0 views

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    Summary of research on journaling, favorite reflective writing formats, and labor-saving method of teacher response.
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Blogging for Reflection - 0 views

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    Blogs are a great way to encourage students to share their work, and to reflect on their learning (YIS IT Department)
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Technology Tools for Reflection - Reflection for Learning - 0 views

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    Here are a series of tools that can be used to support reflection, with a brief discussion of the process, the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
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