Category Archives: Assessment and Feedback
NYTimes: “No Rich Child Left Behind”
Stanford’s Sean F. Reardon has a provocative editorial in Saturday’s New York Times that’s a must-read for all who feel they are in the midst of the tornado of K-12 school reform. You’ll want to read the whole thing for yourself, … Continue reading
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CCSS and Digital Testing
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Håkan Dahlström I’ve long worried that schools are focusing so much on acquiring print texts for Common Core State Standards alignment that they’re overlooking the fact that the standardized tests from … Continue reading
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Badging isn’t really about badges
In a conversation with a colleague about advice she had received to include badging in a project design, I asked, “What did the advisor push you to have badging do inside your project?” She responded, “I think right now, they’re mostly just … Continue reading
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Metaphors for Badging
“sunday afternoon, hands on hips” cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Jack Lord There are a lot of people on our campus and in our community thinking about badging, the Open Badges project, and badging for learning. On … Continue reading
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Who Knew? Research Tasks are REALLY important in PARCC
This month, the PARCC testing group (one of the two state consortia responsible for creating assessments for the Common Core State Standards, or CCSS) has released some testing guidance. If your state has adopted CCSS, they belong either to the … Continue reading
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“I stopped using rubrics because…”
Is this a great rubric or a limiter? How do we know? How do we decide? How do we systematize this? Last week, a surprising thread running through all of my presentations was unexpected, spontaneous, and recurring conversation about the … Continue reading
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Useful Feedback
Last week, I gave ungraded comments on my children’s literature students’ first book review. I called it feedback, but as I worked through them, I caught myself many times wanting to write, “Great,” “Good job here,” or something similarly laudatory … Continue reading
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