Based on the book Assessment 3.0: Throw Out Grades and Inspire Learning, this presentation demonstrates how to build an ongoing conversation about learning, while discarding number, percentage, and letter grades. Mark Barnes is a global leader in the no-grades classroom movement. You learn how to use digital literacy tools to assess learning and to curate content as a teacher and a student. You learn how to engage learners at all levels in a vibrant discussion about learning and how to help students of all ages become self-evaluative independent learners. For more details, grab a copy of Assessment 3.0 on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Assessment-3-0-Throw-Inspire-Learning/dp/1483373886/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

1. Assessment 3.0
Throw Out Grades and
Inspire Learning
@markbarnes19

2. Tweet @markbarnes19
Hashtag #TTOG

3. Tori’s Story

4. Takeaways

5. Takeaways
Traditional
assessment
fails students

6. Takeaways
Assessment 3.0 makes
learning an ongoing
conversation, free
from measurement

7. Takeaways
Feedback must be
immediate, mobile
and invite iteration

8. Takeaways
Educators must not
allow other
shareholders to dictate
how learning is assessed

9. Talk about it
What is the process of
grading a student’s work?
Share your thoughts on
Twitter at hashtag #TTOG

10. The anatomy of traditional grading

11. The problem
with
weighting

12. Students in one
math class use
this rubric
X
X
X
X
15
15
30
30
X10
X
X

13. Students in
another math
class use this
rubric
X
X
X
X
30
30
15
15
X10

14. 15
15
30
30
10
70
points
40
points
Class A Class B

15. What happens when
students in Class A and
Class B turn in
identical, partially
completed, projects?
Tweet your thoughts to #TTOG

16. What are people saying?
Hashtag #TTOG

17. Each student is perfect on the top three parts
but receives zeroes on the bottom two parts
15
15
30
30
10

18. The Results are in. . .
Chantel’s math project grade: 70/100—C
Ariana’s math project grade: 40/100—F

20. Shifting Our Practice
Building a
conversation
about learning

22. Sample Writing Assignment
1. Write a 400-450 word blog post comparing a character from a
novel you’ve read to an actor’s portrayal of that character in a
movie version. This can be any novel, as long as there is a movie
adaptation.
2. Write two examples of how the actor’s portrayal makes the
character in the movie appear similar to the character in the
novel. Supply details that support your response.
3. Write two examples of how the actor’s portrayal makes the
character in the movie appear different from the novel character.
Supply details that support your response.
4. Explain, in your opinion, why the actor is a good or bad choice to
portray the character.
5. Correctly use two vocabulary words from List 15 in your blog
post. Highlight the words in the color of your choice, so your
readers can easily locate them.

23. SE2R Feedback

24. How do we leave
all this feedback?
Hashtag #TTOG

25. Mobilizing Feedback

26. Two-way
conversation in
a Google Doc

27. Converse about learning on
blogs and other social media

28. Create a private online room to
chat with students about learning
.com

29. First graders discuss learning, using Twitter

30. Voxer for two-way recorded voice feedback

31. Teacher reads student work and gives
verbal SE2R feedback, using Voxer

32. What about Pushback?

33. Shareholder concerns
• Parent: “I don’t know how my child is
performing without grades”
• Administrator: “We need weekly
grades for record keeping”
• Teacher: “I don’t have time to write
SE2R feedback for so many students”
• Student: “What’s it worth?”

34. Tweet about it #TTOG

35. Responding to Pushback
• To parents: “You will be directed to detailed
narrative feedback that will say far more about
learning than a grade”
• To administrators: “I can supply a traditional grade
whenever you like”
• To teachers: “There are many ways to give feedback
that don’t require lengthy narratives and
workarounds that make providing narratives easy
(Shorthand Feedback)”
• To students: “You are more than a number or a
letter; learning is its own reward and can’t be
measured”

36. Assessment 3.0
Change How We Learn
@markbarnes19

37. Website: HackLearningApp.com
brilliant-insane.com@markbarnes19
Twitter: @markbarnes19