ASSESSMENT CORNER

What is the value of assessment?
Assessment can help teachers become flexible, responsive, and more in touch with their students through meaningful evaluation of student work. We believe that student performance is enhanced when students are included in the assessment process and understand the criteria by which they are being evaluated.

Our guiding questions:

• How can we align learning goals, activities, and assessments in a way that is beneficial to students and to teachers who are interested in adapting our TeachNet curricular units?

• How do web-based TeachNet units, which include effective and efficient evaluation strategies, help to enhance/improve student learning as well as teacher instruction?

• Click here to see our KWL chart, completed over the course of the pilot

Additional Resources:

• TeachNet guidelines

• Identifying and Documenting Student Work Samples - see how teachers in our program share various types of student work samples online, e.g. multimedia presentations, web pages, digital photos, scanned documents

• The Evaluation Toolkit: A Work in Progress - developed by the Benton Foundation and EDC's Center for Children & Technology

• Rubrics for Web Lessons - part of Bernie Dodge's WebQuest Page, with many examples

• Build your own rubrics online for project-based learning- Rubistar or Rubric builder

• Graphic Organizers - these may be used as pre- and post- assessment activities

• Glossary of evaluation terms (Marion)

• Assessment Tools (Carolyn)

• Action Research (Peggy)

• Feedback strategies (Bonnie)

• Tailoring evaluation formats for different styles of learning (Sandy)

 

Sandy Scragg	Peggy Maslow	Bonnie Glasgold
Marion Peluso	Carolyn Hornik	Facilitated by Kathy Morin and Carla Huck

Quotes from Assessment Pilot participants:

"I devalued assessment until this workshop experience.  I associated it with quizzes and tests, which don't appeal to me as a teacher.  I was able to explore authentic forms of assessment that matched my personal pedagogy."

"Next year I plan to incorporate more student self-evaluation accompanied with student/teacher conferences, which should lead to students developing ways of improving their work."

"I have learned that it is a challenge to write assessments for my TeachNet units in such a way that they will be meaningful and informative to visitors to our site.  This is important not just for the sake of assessment, but also to build truly authentic learning experiences for both my students and the children in other teachers' classrooms."

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Developed by teachers and staff as part of the TeachNet Learning Assessment Pilot
New York City, July 2002
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