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Active Learning Practice for Schools: Teaching for Understanding
Alberta Assessment Consortium: Everyday Assessment Tools
Classroom Assessment Toolkit: 1-6
Association of Assessment Inspectors and Advisors
Classroom Assessment and Evaluation
Classroom Assessment Practices-National (CAPNAT)
Using Self-Evaluation with Fourth Graders
Rethinking Classroom Assessment with Purpose in Mind
Webcast: April 27, 2006Scroll down to access archived streaming video.
As learning becomes a priority for all students, assessment takes on many different and important roles. When assessment becomes a key component of learning, it can provide teachers and students with a window into what students understand and a mechanism for deciding what to do next.
In this webcast, Dr. Lorna Earl highlights three purposes of assessment, all of which are important in classroom practice, and describes how they require different planning, use and reporting to promote student learning.
- Assessment FOR Learning: formative assessment that occurs during instruction to be used in the service of the next stage of learning.
- Assessment AS Learning: assessment that occurs when students personally monitor what they are learning and use the feedback from this monitoring to make adjustments, adaptations, and even major changes in what they understand.
- Assessment OF Learning: summative assessment designed to certify learning and to report to parents and students about their progress in school.
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