An Introduction to Comprehensive AssessmentPerformance-based evaluation is a real-world improvement on the artificial measures of paper-and-pencil testing. Read a short introductory article or watch an in-depth video.
Performance-based evaluation is a real-world improvement on the artificial measures of paper-and-pencil testing. Read a short introductory article or watch an in-depth video.
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Release Date: 9/25/2008
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Business Instructor
Two of my favorite people--Howard Gardner and Linda Darling-Hammond! I realize that curriculum, instruction and assessment always go hand in hand and each work towards improving teaching in the classroom.
Eloise
PBL How to make time?
Our SED is killin us with these exams. Teahers are fearfull of jumpin in to PBL b/c they worry about the time frame and how they are going to prep students for the test (fill thier heads with facts). I could use some help in gathering date on schools that have made this change and have state test scores to rpove it's success.
It is our moral obligation to
It is our moral obligation to prepare our students to function in the real world. Those "intangibles" are exactly the skills they will need in the work force and to be honest skills that many current graduates are lacking. This is an idea whose time MUST come, in order to shift the paradigm.
Elementary Dean - Montessori school
Part of the Montessori curriculum insists that all students follow a project/research based design. Our students are encouraged to work with different age groups so that all students either learn or help teach each other. This allows all students a sense of success.
Becky
As a student, who struggles with test taking, I find project based learning and comprehensive assessment very useful. It not only provides me with opportunities to organize my thoughts, and practice skills, but it also helps to lessen my test taking anxiety.
Science Coach
Project based learning with real life issues is the best way to prepare students for the real world. I believe that we may be able to teach more if we take more time to address real question and delve deeply into them with our students.
Project based learning
After watching this video I am reminded of the book by Ted McCain entitled "Teaching for Tomorrow". In that book he talks about moving how we teach and educate more like the real world. Some of the tools he uses in his classoom are contracts, resource froms, timelines, etc. Also he talks a lot about project based learning as an assessment tool. In changing my middle school classes to more of this type of assessment and less on formal tests and quizes I have found that the students are better able to show me their understanding of a skill or concept and their anxiety level is much lower when I talk about assessment.