Category: Testing
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Three Levels of Assessment
Read MoreQuestions to Ask at Each In the previous Blog, I attempted to go inside the classroom and look at using assessment practices that promote student learning—assessment for learning. I’d like to take a step back and look at the balanced assessment system, this time at the three levels of assessment, the information about student learning […]
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Knowing What Students Know
Read MoreUsing Assessment to Improve Student Learning and Enhance Classroom Instruction In the previous Blog, I talked about creating and sustaining a balanced assessment system—i.e., different ways to assess, balancing assessment types, and conditions and practices that need to be in place in order to implement and sustain a balanced assessment system. This week, I want […]
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A Balanced Assessment System
Read MoreCreating, Implementing, and Sustaining Effective Assessment Practices As a society, we’ve shifted the thinking about schools from places where it’s OK for some students to succeed and some to fail to places where the expectation is for all students to succeed. With this shift, the role of assessment has changed from separating successful and unsuccessful students to […]
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Professional Development
Read MoreCreating & Sustaining Effective Classroom Assessment Practices If you are trying to decide where to send your child to school, your best bet might be to focus on which teacher(s) your child gets rather than on which school. Why? The vast majority of studies that have examined the classroom teacher’s impact on student learning have come […]
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Key Assessment Terms
Read MoreI’ve written about reliability, point-biserial correlation, metacognition, and other assessment terms and topics. Yet, I’ve failed to provide a definition (at least a glossary) of these key assessment terms and other terms found on the Naiku website and application. Well, it’s time to rectify that short-coming. I’ve now included a glossary of key assessment terms. […]
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Common Core State Standards
Read MoreThis is a guest blog from Takeshi Terada. Takeshi’s interests are in educational policy and assessment. He is particularly interested in data-driven educational evaluation, policy-making & analysis, and decision-making systems in K-12 education that apply both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, mostly using assessment test scores. Takeshi is a graduate of the University of Minnesota […]
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Focus on Effectiveness
Read MoreAs we move toward the start of the 2011-12 school year educators across the country are looking to improve their skills. Last week I attended a conference in Moorhead Minnesota titled: “Teaching & Learning: Focus on Effectiveness”. This daylong conference was attended by over 250 educators from the Fargo – Moorhead area. It included the […]
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Importance of Affective Assessments
Read MoreWhen one thinks of educational assessment, one often thinks of cognitive measures. We teach students important concepts, how to problem solve, and how to think critically. Then we create tests to determine whether the students can do or know those things. In this blog, I’ve written a lot about how to go about doing that. […]
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Writing Short-Answer Items in Naiku
Read MoreThis week’s class focuses on the topic of item writing. All assessment items can be categorized either as a selected-response or a constructed-response item. I will be going over the advantages and disadvantages of each of the item type (i.e., true-false, multiple-choice, matching, short-answer, and essay items) in my class. For this blog, I want to […]