21st Century Classroom Assessment Strategies

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.

The taxonomy presented here provides scaffolding for teachers as they consider how to best structure Social Studies learning activities, and how to best support those activities with educational technologies.

The taxonomy presented here provides scaffolding for teachers as they consider how to best structure Secondary English learning activities, and how to best support those activities with educational technologies.

This activity types taxonomy for science introduces a range of student learning activities for teachers to consider when building lessons that strive to effectively integrate technology, pedagogy, and content.

This activity types taxonomy for mathematics introduces a range of student learning activities for teachers to consider when building lessons that strive to effectively integrate technology, pedagogy, and content.

The K-6 literacy learning activity types identified here attempt to simplify the complexity of teaching a child to read and write by subdividing these processes into manageable learning activities that effectively integrate technology, pedagogy and content.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An overview of the Edutopia professional development guide for understanding the many ways to assess student learning in the classroom.

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.

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.

Blogs are a great way to encourage students to share their work, and to reflect on their learning (YIS IT Department)

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.

Presentation on Assessment and Feedback in the 21st Century Classroom.

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

Re-imaging the 4 critical questions through student eyes can provide a blueprint for lessong planning.