Grading for Dummies, or A Confederacy of Rubrics
Dressed in a three-piece, charcoal gray pinstriped suit, Rex Kane squirmed in […]
Issue: December 2013
Assessment Practices: Encouraging or Damaging?
Our discussion for this month began with the following prompt from John […]
A Little Box of Leadership
This semester, our students, funded by a state grant, have been asked […]
Assessment, Evaluation, and Gardens
“I remember the first time that a grading rubric was attached to […]
Effective Assessment Practices: Tools that Lead to Learning
As long as there have been schools, teachers have been in the […]
Developing Self-Assessment through Project-Based Learning
Well-developed self-assessment skills are not only a vital tool for improving student […]
Shifting from the “Bucket-o-Points” to “Big Ideas” Assessment
The idea of assigning a letter as a way to measure student […]
Assessment Obsession and Evaluation Idolization
When educational policy makers first caught assessment fever from the business world […]
Restoring Peer and Self-Assessment
In 2007, Elaine Brouwer unpacked some important ideas on assessment in the […]
Eight Big Ideas about Assessment and Grading: Putting the Focus Back on Learning
I first became aware of the power of big ideas in an […]