Authentic Assessment: Where to Start
This text is excerpted from Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom by Joanna Dolgin, Kim Kelly, and Sarvenaz Zelkha, available from NCTE. To believe in authentic forms of assessment ….
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Imperfect Grades: Aligning Our Assessment Practices with Our Theoretical Beliefs
This post was written by NCTE member Chris Hass, a member of the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment. Several years ago, my principal called for a grade-level meeting to…
Connected Educator Month, Week 3
…assessment, standardized assessment, portfolios, standards-based grading, and more. Go to the Literacy in Learning Exchange to learn more. Using Social Networks to Build and Share Collective Wisdom: #WhatWeHonor. When we…
Placing Assessment on the November Ballot
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment This post was written by NCTE member Chris Hass, a member of the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment. Many of…
Remodeling Your Approach to Assessment
…great example of one of the many ways we’re using what we learn from the Assessment Story Project to rethink what assessment really entails. Summer is an important time for…
Drowning in Data
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment This post was written by NCTE members Kathryn Pierce and Chris Hass, members of the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment….
Literacy Assessment in College
…SAT the public doesn’t know much about what happens in literacy assessment at the college level. Some of the most innovative advances in assessment are born and thrive in higher…
Writing and Human Judgment
…the next few weeks, we will unpack each one. This week, we will look at: “Assessment of writing involves complex, informed, human judgment.” Assessment of writing occurs for different purposes….
Human Judgment and Writing
…weeks, we have unpacked the first nine. Today, we will finish and look at: “Assessment of writing involves complex, informed, human judgment.” Assessment of writing occurs for different purposes. Instructors…
Taking a Formative Assessment Stance
Much attention has been paid to the big high-stakes assessments that are raising blood pressure across the country—but there’s another kind of assessment that gets used even more in successful…
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