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Under an umbrella that encompasses the wide assessment types and purposes, the National Council of Teachers of English is leading the theme “Innovations in Assessment” for Connected Educator Month 2015….
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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…
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…
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…
Scaffolding a Librarian into Your Course: An Assessment of a Research-Based Model for Online Instruction
This excerpt is taken from Kelly O. Secovnie and Lane Glisson’s article “Scaffolding a Librarian into Your Course: An Assessment of a Research-Based Model for Online Instruction,” from the December…
Out of Many, One
…members from the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative, recently renamed as MALI, the Maine Arts Leadership Initiative. These visual and performing arts teachers were so passionate and engaged that they left…
The Value of Staying Connected through NCTE
…students from ELL or other diverse learning backgrounds. But these assessments drive a lot in our educational systems. Think about the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). As you know,…
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