Clear and unclear ways of assessing students

This week I learned about creating assessment tools and monitoring them for bias and questions that could be misleading.  I also learned about the Seven Rules for Test Formulation and that really helped me as I was thinking about how I would assess students in my own classroom.  I realized the need for different types [...]

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Percolating on science

In middle school science I would use percolating to get students to think about how the things we learn relate to something that is currently happening in their life or the world around them. If we studied the flow of water through plants, at the end of the week I would challenge them to think [...]

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What I learned about Assessment this week

I learned I’m in Group B, not Group A. I learned that assessment is a tool to help both teachers and students through the entire learning cycle, from screening for prior knowledge, finding out what teaching methods are working well and what information is getting through during a lesson and how to improve upon it, [...]

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