assessment as learning – HARNESSING THE POWER OF ASSESSMENT

Enacting AfL means changing the roles of educators and students (Part 5)

‘Don’t smile until Christmas!” was well-meaning advice given to me many years ago. In my teacher training, and early in

October 21, 2018 Assessment Loop / Learning Goals and Success Criteria / Witnessing Learning Over Time

Witnessing Learning over Time: Monitoring and Documenting (Part 1)

Take a moment to breathe, slow down and reflect on the first part of this academic year.

October 13, 2018 Assessment Loop / Reflecting Back Moving Forward

Reflecting Back, Moving Forward: Witnessing Learning Over Time

I learned about differentiation and personalization in a truly authentic way.

October 2, 2018 Assessment Essentials / Assessment Loop / Learning Goals and Success Criteria

Collaboratively Developing Students’ Understanding of Success Criteria: A Dynamic, Ongoing Process (Part 4)

As a learning community, students uncover possible success criteria, giving an educator the opportunity to listen deeply, assessing what students already know and understand.

September 4, 2018 Assessment Essentials / Assessment Loop

The Assessment Loop: Merging Assessment and Instruction

‘I want to simplify the process of assessing my students! How do I begin?’

August 28, 2018 Assessment Beliefs

Changing how we think about assessment – Knowing your students as learners

Has this scenario ever happened to you? “I know this student understands the concepts. We talked about it; the student showed me how the model works but on the test this student did poorly! Why is that? That doesn’t make sense! What do I do now?”