If You Hate Assessment, You Might Be Doing It Wrong
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This document discusses the need to rethink assessment in education. It provides several quotes highlighting that assessment should focus on learning rather than just measuring outcomes, and that feedback is key to helping students reach their goals. The document also suggests that assessment should involve self and peer evaluation, with students having ownership over the assessment process. It advocates using technology to document and showcase learning, and developing assessments that reflect real-world work that matters.
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- 1. Making ASSESSMENT Meaningful http://www.flickr.com/photos/hdurnin/6281411798 Dean Shareski GAFE Summit Singapore Sept. 6, 2014
- 2. Making ASSESSMENT Meaningful http://www.flickr.com/photos/hdurnin/6281411798 Dean Shareski GAFE Summit Singapore Sept. 6, 2014
- 3. How Do you Define Learning? http://www.flickr.com/photos/17014945@N08/3378969069
- 4. How Do you Define Learning? http://www.flickr.com/photos/17014945@N08/3378969069 http://shareski.ca/y/3nv
- 6. “I try to distinguish between contexts of productive and unproductive learning. And by productive, I mean that the learning process is one that engenders and reinforces wanting to learn more. Absent wanting to learn, the learning context is unproductive or counterproductive.”
- 8. “Information will be learned slowly and doomed to rapid forgetting unless they are quickly attached to a framework of knowledge that we already possess.”
- 9. Rick Stiggins Alfie Kohn Cathy Davidson Ken O’Connor Joe Bower Assessment Heroes Grant Wiggins
- 11. Could you pass this test?
- 12. Could you pass this test?
- 14. Discuss
- 17. “MEASURABLE OUTCOMES MAY BE THE LEAST SIGNIFICANT RESULT OF LEARNING” Dr. Linda McNeil
- 18. Why we need to rethink Assessment
- 20. Rich Documentation + Meaningful Feedback
- 21. http://www.flickr.com/photos/albertogp123/5843577306 “We may not be able to measure learning, but we can document it”
- 22. “If you say you don’t have time for assessment, you assume that the teaching is more important than the learning. Feedback is the key to reaching goals.
- 23. “If you say you don’t have time for assessment, you assume that the teaching is more important than the learning. Feedback is the key to reaching goals. Saying there’s no time is to confuse causing learning for mentioning stuff.” Grant Wiggins
- 24. Assessment is not a Spreadsheet
- 25. Assessment is not a Spreadsheet It’s a Conversation
- 26. How We Might Begin to Rethink Assessment http://www.flickr.com/photos/ores2k/394359583/
- 30. 3 Big Ideas
- 33. “Who owns the learning?” http://www.flickr.com/photos/rzganoza/4186516481
- 34. “Who owns the assessment?” http://www.flickr.com/photos/rzganoza/4186516481 http://ideasandthoughts.org/2014/07/16/what-ownership-means/
- 36. What did you learn from others? ! What did you contribute to the learning of others?
- 40. “Taught me to examine my work critically”
- 41. “Taught me to examine my work critically” “...enabled me to focus on learning”
- 42. “Taught me to examine my work critically” “...enabled me to focus on learning” “I wasn’t comfortable assessing myself”
- 43. The Trouble With Rubrics
- 48. Meta Cognition 1867 - 2005 http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivander/58499153
- 49. Press Record
- 54. What makes that a powerful example of technology?
- 55. Reduce Workflow
- 56. Reduce Workflow
- 57. Reduce Workflow
- 60. Show Your Work
- 61. Make it Matter http://www.flickr.com/photos/edublogger/6029602465
- 71. The World as Your Refrigerator http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmerogers/3611400213/
- 72. The World as Your Refrigerator http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmerogers/3611400213/ comment (1) Reads 4
- 73. The World as Your Refrigerator http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmerogers/3611400213/ comment (1) Reads 4
- 74. Warning: Work that Matters is Really Hard to Assess
- 76. What About You?
- 77. What About You?
- 88. http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/6579378601 Inquiry isn’t just for kids
- 91. Don’t Complicate Assessment What Did You Learn? Why Does it Matter? What Can You Do?
- 92. Stuart Firestein
- 93. Stuart Firestein
- 95. Thanks shareski.ca @shareski dean@shareski.ca