Here's how you know when you have true, meaningful performance
assessment happening in your classroom: when preparing for the test, taking the test, and then applying the skill in real life all look the same.
The eExam mostly affects our high schools and
the assessment happening in those classrooms.
Not exact matches
... and if even this very brief intervention that was delivered online
in only about 45 minutes of class time could have this kind of noticeable, significant effect on student's performance, just think how much bigger the effects could be if these ideas were skilfully woven into the curriculum, into
classroom practice, into the way
assessments happen and so forth.
To resolve those difficulties, a teacher must make an objective
assessment of what's actually
happening in the
classroom by asking such questions as:
Once these are agreed we can look to build a set of descriptors and
in turn rigorous, meaningful
assessment processes that recognise (and indeed serve to support and develop) the high - quality teaching already
happening in many
classrooms across the country, rather than adding to teacher workload.
By broadly defining data to include formative
assessments, student writing, interviews, and surveys, teachers are getting a student - focused look at what is
happening in their
classrooms.
Although educators have learned a lot about good formative
assessment in individual
classrooms, we wondered what might
happen if a school took the process schoolwide.
A
classroom culture that is focused on learning and not evaluation is key to allowing the communication that is essential
in formative
assessment to
happen.
Some things are relatively straightforward - and are
happening in classrooms across the country: teachers can use formative
assessment and student work to make decisions and adjust instruction; teachers can demand rigor, of themselves and their colleagues; teachers can teach
in ways that are rigorous and relevant — leveraging the assets of the families, cultures and community resources of the children they serve — getting students to think and act critically
in their world and the larger one.