Do you support replacing high - stakes testing of students, teachers, and schools with qualitative,
collaborative assessments of students and teachers?
Dance videos are not typical of the work teachers bring to Senior Lecturer Steve Seidel's «Rounds at Project Zero,» a
monthly collaborative assessment discussion group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that is based on principles from hospital medical rounds.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bloomington, Ind. (January 25, 2016)-- Solution Tree, a premier educational publisher and professional development provider, announces the release of a powerful new book that seeks to reinvigorate teaching and learning
through collaborative assessment practices.
This issue will examine the role of all kinds of assessment — standardized tests, classroom diagnostic assessments, readiness tests, performance - based assessment, and
collaborative assessment of student work — in promoting student learning.
A researcher at Project Zero since 1988, she studies and supports practices for engaging both students and educators in deep learning and thinking, particularly through reflection, collaborative inquiry, documentation of student learning, and
the collaborative assessment of student and teacher work.
Teacher collaboration also encompasses
the collaborative assessment of student work.
For sixteen years, she was a researcher at Harvard Project Zero, where she studied teacher collaboration (particularly processes for
the collaborative assessment of student work) as well as approaches to supporting deep learning, thinking and understanding for students.