21st Century Classroom Assessment Strategies

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.