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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)

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.

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.

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.

Routinely asking students to ponder -- deeply and seriously -- what and how they've learned could be the "mind's strongest glue."

Summary of research on journaling, favorite reflective writing formats, and labor-saving method of teacher response.

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.