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t r u t h o u t | "Value-Added" Assessment: Tool for Improvement or Educational "Nuclea... - 4 views

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shared by Mark Smith on 16 Sep 10 - No Cached

The growing enthusiasm over value-added assessment, however, belies what is actually a damaging policy for public education. Value-added assessment promises, rather, to dismantle teachers' unions, deintellectualize teachers' jobs, to refashion schools according to corporate-profit-making initiatives and to burn out experienced teachers at ever faster rates. What its proponents fail to realize is that value added contributes to the destruction of public education by 1) participating in a broader corporate reform scheme of privatization and 2) objectifying knowledge, or turning knowledge into "things," that is, units that can be measured, compared and transmitted at the expense of genuine learning.
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There are two basically different ideas of educational value at play in this debate. For proponents of value-added assessment, standardized tests contain certain, verifiable and numerically quantifiable knowledge. The tests are mistakenly thought to be objective.
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I am a teacher et cetera: Interesting Links on Assessment, Grading, and Mastery - 13 views

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shared by Leslie Healey on 19 Aug 10 - Cached

Leslie Healey on 19 Aug 10

great list of resources for grading and assessment

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NAEP - What Does the NAEP Writing Assessment Measure? - 4 views

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writing assessment tests NAEP teaching

shared by Katie Anderson on 22 Sep 10 - No Cached

Katie Anderson on 22 Sep 10

Important to consider what NAEP will assess in comparison with state writing tests, especially as they are being reformatted (e.g., Texas with the STAAR test).

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Portfolios (Authentic Assessment Toolbox) - 12 views

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portfolios assessment rubric

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Susan Payne on 04 Nov 09

Helpful overview for implementing a portfolio system.

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Grace Lin on 06 Nov 09

Portfolio assessment toolbox

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Formative and Summative Assessment in the Classroom - 12 views

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assessment formative summative

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  Use of exit slips as formative assessments!
  
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self-evaluation is a logical step in the learning process.
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students keeping ongoing records of their work not only engages students, it
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The English Teacher Blog » Blog Archive » The Differentiator - 1 views

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differentiator assessment web2.0 tech_tools

shared by Clifford Baker on 08 Aug 09 - Cached

Clifford Baker on 08 Aug 09

As teachers make selections from the boxes at the bottom, the choices are entered at the top. By the time a teacher has selected a thinking skill, content, resources to be used, the final product, and the size of the group (one option is "1″), the assessment is summarized at the top of the screen.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">As teachers make selections from the boxes at the bottom, the choices are entered at the top. By the time a teacher has selected a thinking skill, content, resources to be used, the final product, and the size of the group (one option is "1″), the assessment is summarized at the top of the screen.</div>

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From the Trenches: A Lesson Plan - To Kill a Mockingbird - 15 views

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mockingbird projects assessment lesson plan novel literature

shared by Jo Hawke on 28 Jul 11 - No Cached

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Six project options to serve as final assessment for novel study. Focuses especially on Civil Rights Movement, prejudice, and legal system.

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Strategies to enhance peer feedback | Assessment for Learning - 21 views

www.assessmentforlearning.edu.au/...peer_strategies_enhance.html

thinking hats meta-cognitive strategies formative assessment

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Lisa Moore on 27 Jul 12

many meta-cognitive formatives!

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The Dark History of the Multiple-Choice Test | Edutopia - 2 views

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C Reed on 23 Jun 15

Science evangelist Ainissa Ramirez reveals the questionable origins of the multiple-choice test and questions whether this is truly a valid form of assessment.

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Comic Creator - ReadWriteThink - 1 views

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comic_life how-to Resources_2.0 comics resources_teachers

shared by Karen LaBonte on 22 Mar 10 - Cached

Karen LaBonte on 22 Mar 10

"The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on). The organizers focus on the key elements of comic strips by allowing students to choose backgrounds, characters, and props, as well as to compose related dialogue (shown at left). This versatile tool can be used by students from kindergarten through high school, for purposes ranging from learning to write dialogue to an in-depth study of a formerly neglected genre. The tool is easy to use, made even easier with the Comic Strip Planning Sheet, a printable PDF that comic creators can use to draft and revise their work before creating and printing their final comics. After completing their comic, students have the ability to print out and illustrate their final versions for feedback and assessment."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on). The organizers focus on the key elements of comic strips by allowing students to choose backgrounds, characters, and props, as well as to compose related dialogue (shown at left). This versatile tool can be used by students from kindergarten through high school, for purposes ranging from learning to write dialogue to an in-depth study of a formerly neglected genre. The tool is easy to use, made even easier with the Comic Strip Planning Sheet, a printable PDF that comic creators can use to draft and revise their work before creating and printing their final comics. After completing their comic, students have the ability to print out and illustrate their final versions for feedback and assessment."</div>

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The Norton FIELD GUIDE To WRITING - 0 views

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Comma Quizzes Norton

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Todd Finley on 11 Mar 11

Can be used as pre-post assessment in punctuation

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Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 17 views

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21stcenturylearning teaching digitalcitizenship

shared by Leslie Healey on 08 Aug 11 - No Cached

What if, indeed. After studying the matter, Ms. Davidson concluded, “Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism, and generally better, more elegant and persuasive prose than classroom assignments by the same writers.”
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Ms. Davidson cites the elite Socratic system of questions and answers, the agrarian method of problem-solving and the apprenticeship program of imitating a master. It’s possible that any of these educational approaches
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A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them. That classroom needs new ways of measuring progress, tailored to digital times — rather than to the industrial age or to some artsy utopia where everyone gets an Awesome for effort.
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students accountable on the Web
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Leslie Healey on 08 Aug 11

Coherent, concise assessment of the reactionary nature of school, not "learning"

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English Online / English - ESOL - Literacy Online website - English - ESOL - Literacy O... - 0 views

englishonline.tki.org.nz

units of work carriculum assessment

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New Zealand Curriculum

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Terrie D on 18 Aug 09

English online

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New Zealand Curriculum

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Teaching tips: How to save time grading writing assignments - Teachers & Administrators... - 0 views

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grading writing assessment rubrics

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Calibrated peer review - 2 views

cpr.molsci.ucla.edu

teaching writing composition peerreview assessment tools evaluation web2.0

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Trouble with Rubrics - 0 views

www.alfiekohn.org/...rubrics.htm

rubrics alfiekohn assessment

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Patrick Higgins on 15 Jul 09

Kohn makes some interesting points in this piece from 2006. This would be a great article for a discussion, or a diigo annotation session.

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Blogging Rubric - 1 views

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blogging rubric assessment blog rubrics web2.0 writing

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Greater Expectations - 0 views

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College Assessment

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Denee Tyler on 16 Jul 09

A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College

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A Map for Teaching and Assessing - 0 views

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teaching instruction learning

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The Importance of Student Journals and How to Respond Efficiently | Edutopia - 12 views

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journals metacognition critical thinking 6-traits

shared by Dennis OConnor on 06 Sep 10 - Cached

Burdened by expanding curriculum and multiplying high-stakes assessment requirements, some of my respected colleagues might be forgiven for not integrating student journals into their courses. The most common objection: "Who has time?"
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