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Assessments That Deliver Results
My nephew, who is in elementary school, suffers from anxiety. When he was in third grade, in the days leading up to the high-stakes state exam, his teacher told his class that what they were about to do was so important that even the President of the United States would
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Assessment Diaries: Feedback From Students
Editor's Note: Teaching Channel has partnered with Student Achievement Partners on a blog series about the new assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Learn more about this series.
THIS WEEK'S TOPIC
How did students respond to the new assessments? What did they enjoy? Where did your students find success? What
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Writing Fluency: A Key to Success on Next Generation Assessments
"If you can read everything your students write, you're not assigning enough writing" - Doug Fisher.
Teachers tend to think about building fluency in terms of reading, but now more than ever, teachers should be helping their students build writing fluency as well. Readers who don’t read fluently devote much of
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Back-To-School Backpack: Think About Assessment
At the beginning of the year, assessment may be the furthest thing from your mind. But thinking about it sooner rather than later will pay off in the long run. You need to know what you want kids to learn and how you'll know if they learned it before designing
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What If Assessment Was Used to Elevate Learning Rather than to Rank Students?
Imagine you are the coach of your daughter's soccer team. Assessment would be important to you. You would hope that each of your players would have a clear sense of what she does well, what she needs to work on, and a commitment to improvement. It's doubtful you would regularly
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Video Playlist: Authentic Assessments
At this time of the year, there's typically a lot of anxiety around summative assessments. What if my students haven't learned what I assume they have? Before end-of-course or end-of-year assessments roll around, it's a great time to check what students really do know. And, if necessary, made some instructional
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Tch Talks 28: Playful Assessment
How might student learning improve if assessments were innovative, authentic, and playful?
Learning can — and should — be fun, but when it comes to assessment, teachers can be very serious. However, there’s no need for the fun to stop when the assessments come out.
On this episode of Tch Talks, Dr.
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Three Ways Digital Portfolios Shift Your Assessment Focus
“What gets measured is what gets done.”
I hear this mantra often in the educational world. While some people might read it and sigh, thinking about all the testing our kids have to go through, I see it differently.
Why accept the current frame, that assessment is a tool merely for evaluation?
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Planning to Assess: How to Align Your Instruction
For many of us, the new year brings new assessments -- and undoubtedly, some anxiety. This can be a great time to reflect on what you and your students have achieved so far, as well as think about what's ahead. While you obviously need to think about the specific needs
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4 Tips for Assessing Digital Literacy in Your Classroom
Can your students contend with the disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda that floods their phones, tablets, and laptops?
Since the 2016 presidential election, there’s been intense concern about whether people can make sense of digital information. Our work at the Stanford History Education Group may have contributed to the unease. Over the
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Glowing and Growing Through Self-Assessment
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by Teaching Channel's Vice President of Engagement, Paul Teske
This summer, I was humbled and energized by the diversity, compassion, and wisdom of the educators that we convened as part of the Fab Five ELL Squad and California District EL Network. The goal of our gathering was to deepen our understanding
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Infinitely Reusable Folders for Practice & Assessment
Jen Saul shares her use of math folders for independent practice and individual monitoring of progress learning math facts. This easy to use strategy can be embedded into daily routines and has added benefits beyond classroom management. Students become monitors of their own learning and are motivated to improve because
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Self-Assessment and Peer Support
Students at the President Kennedy School in Coventry are asked to write down their impressions of a book and then rate their work using a traffic light system.
The results are then used to inform the rest of the lesson so the teacher can target help for the students who indicated
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Five Assessment Myths and Misunderstandings
Walking around the classroom, clipboard in hand, I moved as quickly as possible, diligently checking for homework completion, assigning five points to those who had it done, two-and-a-half to those who had it partially done, and zero to those who didn’t do it. It was super scientific and truly measured
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Tch Tips: Five Strategies to Assess Young Students’ Learning
When we think of assessment, we often think about tests. But good assessment is much more than tests -- it’s a chance to discover what our students understand so that we can help them learn and grow.
Just like with everything else, assessment looks a little different for young students. Our squirrelliest
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Assess and Plan with Exit Tickets
Third grade teacher Drew Crandall shares how he uses exit tickets to assess his students' learning and plan future lessons. At the end of a lesson, Drew asks his students to solve a problem. This "exit ticket" gives Drew information about his students' learning and helps him decide what to
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Project Based Learning: Assessment and Other Dirty Words
Assessment. Accountability. Benchmarks. Pacing.
These words all carry such negative connotations, yet they're a driving force in the world we must exist in as educators today. As teachers, we must toe the line every day between progressive ideas tugging at our hearts and external standards with accompanying responsibilities.
Is it possible to move beyond
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Mid-Year Check-in: Assessing Your Year So Far
As a teacher, January is the perfect time to check-in on YOUR progress, reflect, and reboot for 2018!
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Clipboards: A Tool for Informal Assessment
Math coach Audra McPhillips uses a clipboard to take notes on her students' progress. Audra explains how she assesses students' understanding and uses her notes to inform future instruction.
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Assessing Learning and Providing Feedback
In this webinar, author and educator Doug Fisher and moderator Wendy Amato share strategies for assessing learning and providing meaningful feedback while teaching online.
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I Want to Get Better at... Assessment
Build your assessment toolbox so you can refine your practice and improve student learning.
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Tch Tips: Creative Assessment Strategies
Do your students meet your test announcements with an audible groan?
You probably want to be more creative, but there’s just so much content you have to explore with your students and so little time. It may seem impossible to break away from those boring but efficient paper-and-pencil tests. But what
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Calibration: Assessing Portfolio Defenses
Teachers at Metropolitan Arts & Tech High School calibrate their ratings before assessing portfolio defenses. Teachers work together to learn about the assessment tool and practice rating defenses together. Teachers collaborate together to calibrate and assess their students' performance.
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Carol Dweck on Performance Assessment
Carol Dweck discusses the approach of Envision Education and how growth mindset intersects with performance assessment. Carol discusses how students are motivated by seeing intelligence as something you can create rather than something that is fixed. She goes on to connect growth mindset to the portfolio assessment at Envision.
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Making It Click: Assessment with Technology
Freshman math teacher Carrie Hochgrebe uses clickers to monitor individual and group achievement. With this information, she can assist individual students, make instructional decisions and ensure that all students are learning.
Instructional expert Jim Knight discusses with Carrie her use of clickers and the benefits for assessment and student engagement. Together,