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

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  • purposefully planned
  • Learning goals and criteria for success should be clearly identified
  • 4. Self- and Peer-Assessment: Both self- and peer-assessment are important for providing students an opportunity to think meta-cognitively about their learning.
Mark McGaffin

ollie4: Building a Better Mousetrap - 1 views

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  • Closer to home, our own successful Allied Health programs depend on rubrics to both assess and encourage student learning.
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      Mark McGaffin on 04 Oct 11
       
      Not just an assessment tool but also a motivational tool.  It is as useful to teachers as it is to students.  More or less a way for the teacher to communicate to the students what they need to improve on.
  • self-assessment
    • Mark McGaffin
      Mark McGaffin on 04 Oct 11
       
      This is what we want as educators, to develop reflective students who can evaluate themselves and decide what actions they need to take to be a better professional.
  • , these critics of rubrics, while their critiques should be considered, mistake the design of specific rubrics with the concept of rubrics in general. Rubrics that are prescriptive rather than descriptive will promote thoughtless and perfunctory writing; such rubrics are as limiting to the development of rhetorical mastery as the five-paragraph essa
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  • Rubrics that are prescriptive rather than descriptive will promote thoughtless and perfunctory writing; such rubrics are as limiting to the development of rhetorical mastery as the five-paragraph essa
    • Mark McGaffin
      Mark McGaffin on 04 Oct 11
       
      As teachers we need to be careful and develop rubrics that include AND go beyond the basics of writing.  What do we truly want them to show us.
  • 1. You may give a dimension more weight by multiplying the point by a number greater than one
Mark McGaffin

ollie4: Educational Leadership: The Quest for Quality - 5 views

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  • a reading score from a state accountability test as a diagnostic instrument for reading group placement.
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