Reflecting New Reflective Practices, Part I
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Assessment This blog was written by Kathleen Blake Yancey, a member of the NCTE Standing Committee on Assessment. Many teachers think of reflection as…
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Literacy Assessment as Advocacy: Learning to Be Literate: More than a Single Story, Part II
This post was written by NCTE member Bobbie Kabuto, the chair of the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment. So that is how to create a single story: show a…
Taking the Reins of Writing Assessment
…Chris Gallagher summed things up: Thoughtful self assessment is one of the best outcomes of good teacher-based assessment. The most important piece of learning to take the reins of assessment…
June 2020 #NCTEChat – Assess for Learning: From Reflection to Action
Join us on Sunday, June 21, at 8:00 p.m. ET for an #NCTEchat focusing on learning assessment to be led by members of the Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment: Bobbie…
Student-Generated Questions, Part 2: What We Can Learn from Our Students’ Questions
…with lower scores on traditional assessments of reading comprehension were able to craft insightful questions about the text. The authors conclude, “Using SGQ with a variety of genres in assessments…
#Twitter in October
…participate in its Innovations in Assessments theme. Among other activities, you can tweet using the hashtag #WhatWeHonor to identify assessment practices and activities we ought to focus our assessment energy…
Q & A with Les Perelman
…any, should teachers play in the scoring of assessments? Why? Teachers should be involved in all phases of the assessment process to ensure that the assessment instruments test what should…
Assessing Linguistically Diverse Students
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment This post was written by NCTE member Bobbie Kabuto, a member of the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment. Linguistically…
3 Ways to Support Formative Assessment
At NCTE, October is Connected Educator Month. We’ve been asking our members to reflect on innovations in assessment, and you have. Lisa Lienemann, an ELA teacher at Lockerman Middle School…
Asking the Right Questions in Teacher Assessment
…teacher evaluation rubrics that err by measuring quantity, not quality. She writes: The major challenge of performance assessment via observation is that indicators are counted as if their presence or…
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