learning goals – HARNESSING THE POWER OF ASSESSMENT

November 3, 2020 Eliciting information about learning / Learning Goals and Success Criteria

Asking Effective Questions…Effectively: Part 2

Asking questions is a fundamental way educators elicit information from learners about their learning…or is it? The nature of the

Witnessing Learning Over Time: Tools for Documenting Observations (Part 3)

Student thinking rarely follows a straight path towards a learning destination. When you ponder documenting the twists and turns of whole group or individual students’ thinking, do you feel overwhelmed? How might the application of learning goals and success criteria support the process of documentation?

November 3, 2018 Learning Goals and Success Criteria / Witnessing Learning Over Time

Witnessing Learning Over Time: Documenting Observations with a Checklist (Part 2)

The process of assessment is not black and white. It’s not about shades of grey, but rather, about an understanding that each student has a spectrum of possibilities within them – a rainbow of ideas and potential.

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.

October 1, 2018 Assessment Loop / Learning Goals and Success Criteria

Collaboratively Developing Students’ Understanding of Success Criteria: Using Samples to Uncover Criteria (Part 3)

When you give students information that they can use to improve, and they see and understand that they can do it… students will experience feelings of control over their learning …

September 30, 2018 Assessment Essentials / Assessment Loop / Learning Goals and Success Criteria

Collaboratively Developing Students’ Understanding of Success Criteria: Modelling Criteria (Part 2)

“…the more students interact with the criteria, the more they are able to internalize look-fors and apply them when assessing the quality of their work or performance.” (Nicol, Macfarlane-Dick, 2006)

September 29, 2018 Assessment Essentials / Learning Goals and Success Criteria

Collaboratively Developing Students’ Understanding of Success Criteria: Introduction (Part 1)

When you read the title of this post, did it affirm your thinking or did it evoke a sense of questioning…’But how do I do that?’

September 21, 2018 Assessment Essentials / Assessment Loop / Learning Goals and Success Criteria

Collaboratively Developing Students’ Understanding of the Learning Goals (Part 1)

You’ve heard the phrase making thinking visible. Observing, listening to and conversing with students about their meaning-making is essential. But, in order to do this effectively, what needs to be in place?