Assessments are necessary to measure understanding. Thankfully, they don't have to come in the form multiple choice questions and ScanTron sheets very often. Students enjoy projects that are reality-based. It's all the craze on TV these days, and it's working in our classrooms too. Students are engaged in learning with the challenge of authentic assessments. The challenge of authentic assessment also belongs to the teacher. Authentic assessments are time-intensive and require scoring guides or rubrics. The beauty of the rubric is, the students have a tool that allows them to evaluate their own work. Sorry Randy, Paula and Simon – you aren't needed in the classroom. A student can be his own judge.
Responsibility for
Understanding
Begins with the student when given
Real-world assessments and
Indicators that are
Crystal-clear
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So Barb...
Do kids and teachers use the same rubric for assessment? So the project on topic X is graded twice, once by the kid and once by the teacher? Please elaborate...
Doug,
Do you remember the project I did in the first course, on the human body systems? The students became the teachers. Their assessment was the ability to teach what they had learned about their assigned body systems. The student-teachers did have a rubric; however, they knew if they had been successful by the results of the responses from their learners. If the learners heard and understood the required objectives, they responded to the posed questions. If the learners didn't respond with appropriate answers, the student-teachers didn't need a completed rubric from the classroom teacher, they knew that they could have done better. I hope I have explained this well enough for you. Let me know if you still have questions. B
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