Assessment
In my professional development learning I’ve had the utmost pleasure to be able to work with some talented and passionate educators from the North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership (NCOSP) and lately through my Olympic ESD 114 through the Olympic Math and Science Partnership (OMSP). The series they’ve taught on Assessment for Learning (AfL) have been phenomenal and have helped me improve as an educator. Here are links to some of the learnings I’ve taken away from the trainings I’ve had:
Assessment for Learning (AfL)
Sharing Learning Expectations
Questioning
Formative Process
Applications of Formative Assessment
Reform Symposium Presentation on Student Blogging
I’m also going to include some links here that make an argument against high stakes, standardized testing. There are so many ways to gauge our students’ understandings and so many ways for students to share what they are learning that boiling it down to one mostly multiple choice exam per year just doesn’t make sense.
Making a Case Against High Stakes Testing
Standardized Testing
Our Race to Somewhere
Finland’s Race Leads Somewhere
Ed Reform? Okay.
In My Humble Opinion
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