The document discusses the role of assessment in education, emphasizing that students learn best after receiving feedback on graded tasks, which allows them to identify and correct mistakes. It advocates for flexible grading practices and warns against the inadequacy of grades as a true reflection of a student's understanding. Key points include allowing new evidence of achievement to replace old assessments and the importance of not grading students prematurely during the learning process.

1. Assessment
Rocks & Sucks
Darren Kuropatwa
Curriculum Coordinator
St. James-Assiniboin School Division
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2. talk need to
People learning
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3. Things That Suck

4. The Rules
• Choose a side or stay in the middle
• State your case
• Be kind and respectful

5. Students learn best after an assessment
task has been graded.
Afterward they can see the mistakes
they’ve made and make corrections so
they don’t make the same mistakes again.
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6. Students learn best after an assessment
task has been graded.
Afterward they can see the mistakes
they’ve made and make corrections so
they don’t make the same mistakes again.
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7. It’s my job as a teacher is
to determine what success
looks like in my
classroom; students can’t
really contribute to
“success criteria” in a
meaningful way.
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8. It’s my job as a teacher is
to determine what success
looks like in my
classroom; students can’t
really contribute to
“success criteria” in a
meaningful way.
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9. When students don’t hand
in an assignment that’s a
zero in the grade book.
Hopefully it’ll encourage
them to do better next
time; besides, what else
can I do?
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10. When students don’t hand
in an assignment that’s a
zero in the grade book.
Hopefully it’ll encourage
them to do better next
time; besides, what else
can I do?
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11. All assessment tasks,
formative and
summative, are part of
determining the grades
on the report card.
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12. All assessment tasks,
formative and
summative, are part of
determining the grades
on the report card.
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13. If students do poorly on a summative test
I can just make that a formative test (not
for marks) on a student by student basis.
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14. If students do poorly on a summative test
I can just make that a formative test (not
for marks) on a student by student basis.
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15. One form of assessment will work to the
advantage of some students and to the
disadvantage of others.
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16. One form of assessment will work to the
advantage of some students and to the
disadvantage of others.
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17. Allow new evidence of achievement to replace old evidence.
That means I can just “drop” earlier assessments.
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18. Allow new evidence of achievement to replace old evidence.
That means I can just “drop” earlier assessments.
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19. Grading is reducing
learning to a symbol
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20. Grading is reducing
learning to a symbol
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http://flickr.com/photos/demibrooke/2550349404

21. Never grade students
while they are still
learning something and,
even more important, do
not reward them for their
performance at that point.
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22. Never grade students
while they are still
learning something and,
even more important, do
not reward them for their
performance at that point.
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23. A mark or grade is an inadequate report of an
inaccurate judgement by a biased and variable
judge of the extent to which a student has
attained an indefinite amount of material.
source: Paul L. Dressel

24. A mark or grade is an inadequate report of an
inaccurate judgement by a biased and variable
judge of the extent to which a student has
attained an indefinite amount of material.
source: Paul L. Dressel

25. They didn’t do well
on the test so they
must not get it.
source: Jon Sorokowski
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26. They didn’t do well
on the test so they
must not get it.
source: Jon Sorokowski
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27. thanks
You Rock!
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