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ollie4: Article: Attributes from Effective Formative Assessment (CCSSO) - 14 views

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  • In the year following, the FAST SCASS and FA Advisory Group isolated the attributes that, based on the research and current literature, would render formative assessment most effective.
    • Lynne Devaney
      Lynne Devaney on 16 Oct 11
       
      Our district has been working with AfL for several years, but I have not had the opportunity to read this article before. It is great! Great synthesis and easily difenstible. Would love to (and intend to) use with principals and teachers.
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ollie4: Building a Better Mousetrap - 1 views

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  • Assessment of this sort seems at odds with such concepts as “deep learning,” which implies a kind of learning that is beyond measurement, an elusive hard to describe enlightenment, but identifiable in the same way good art is: teachers know deep learning when they see it. Rubrics, Halden-Sullivan contends, reduce “deep learning” to “checksheets.”
    • Lynne Devaney
      Lynne Devaney on 09 Oct 11
       
      Isn't it all about the combination of a well-written rubric and the onging conversations between the teacher and student as they work along on the journey? If the only conversation is the rubric....you get what you get. If the teacher is working with a student as they progress along the continuum of the rubric, it seems like the chances of deep learning is possible.
  • The second step is deciding who your audience is going to be.
  • “Is the assessment responsive to what we know about how [students] learn?” and
    • Lynne Devaney
      Lynne Devaney on 10 Oct 11
       
      Do we ( as a team or school has a model been agreed upon?) clearly know the students in our classrooms learn? Have we identified the criteria about the kinds of citizens we want?
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ollie4: Educational Leadership: The Quest for Quality - 5 views

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  • Bias can also creep into assessments and erode accurate results. Examples of bias include poorly printed test forms, noise distractions, vague directions, and cultural insensitivity.
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      Lynne Devaney on 09 Oct 11
       
      I believe we are OK at reviewing materials with a "traditional" sense of bias but when it comes to cultural sensitivity...I'm not sure my district has a handle on the work.
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ollie1: Iowa Online Teaching Standards - 0 views

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  • Creates a safe environment, managing conflict (Varvel VII.D, ITS 6.e)
    • Lynne Devaney
      Lynne Devaney on 19 May 11
       
      While I do not have any experience of any kind in the online teaching world, Evan may know, what does conflict look like between students in the online world?
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