Half an Hour: New Forms of Assessment: measuring what you contribute rather than what y... - 4 views
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Rhondda Powling on 29 Aug 12"This list of three types of assessment is intended only to stimulate thought....These three things - helping others, being cooperative, contributing to the public good - are obviously not easy to assess. To be sure, it's far easier to ask students simple questions and grade the number of correct responses. But asking students simple questions, far from measuring putative 'content knowledge', is really an exercise in counting without any real interest in what is being counted."