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Core Concept: Comprehensive Assessment

How Should We Measure Student Learning?

Testing represents a commitment to high academic standards and school accountability. When the financial and emotional stakes associated with standardized tests are disproportionately high, this laudable goal becomes distorted.
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VIDEO: An Introduction to Comprehensive Assessment (3-minute video)

VIDEO: Comprehensive Assessment: An Overview (10-minute video)

Real-Life Examples

  • Teacher working with girls on their architectural project.

    Assessment for understanding.
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    Worried child taking a test.

    Evaluating authentic assessment.
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    Howard Gardner

    Howard Gardner passes the test.
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  • Trying to fit a square peg in a round hole

    Why standardized testing gets an F.
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    Three students

    What it means to be college ready.
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    A litle boy doing his homework.

    A defense of homework.
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  • Teacher pointing something out to young girl.

    Teamwork and testing drive success.
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    Putting in the last piece of a puzzle

    Putting assessment in context.
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    Teacher and three students doing a science project

    Science education is overdue for an overhaul.
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  • Students watching a monitor.

    From consumers to critics and creators.
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    Two boys at a lecturn in a classroom

    Teaching to the individual.
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    Boy demonstrating comparative tempature map.

    Projects, portfolios, and presentations.
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