Assessment

What does assessment look like?

1. What is assessment?
2. How are alternative products, performances and processes assessed?
3. What kinds of feedback helps students learn?
4. How can lesson study assess students as they work? What is the lesson study cycle?
5. How can we assess student work collaboratively? 
6. What is the process for designing performance assessment tasks?
7. What design principles are essential in rubric construction?
   Creators: Rubistar, Scoring Guide for Student Products, Teachnology Rubrics; 
   Teacher-created example: Socratic Seminar
   Student-created examples: #1, #2
8. What is portfolio assessment?  anthology portfolios? digital portfolios?
9. How does a scoring guide assess student technology products? example
10. What other assessment guides can help us?  6+1 writing, reading and oral communication
11. Can I retool quizzes to test higher level thinking?
12. What's the difference between thinking maps and organizers? (examples)
13. How can we help students assess their own learning? (examples #1, #2 , #3 )
14. Capture mouse and audio of student online using Camtasia Studio (Moyo usability studies at Penn State).
15. How will we gather feedback from students on our teaching?
16. How we measure our own current practices against a set of indicators for engaged learning and high performance technology?

Effective teaching matches the teacher's goals and the learner's characteristics and needs, with tools and methods that enhance understanding.