Nancy Blair's List: Assessment

• Collaborative Assessment
• Tuning Protocol
• Collaborative Assessment
• Annenberg Tuning Protocol
• critical friends
• student work samples
• Project Zero
• student work is regarded as evidence of student learning.
• The Education Trust
• focuses on how well a task aligns to a particular standard

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• 35 percent of
• students with cell phones
• used them to cheat at school
• nearly a quarter of the students don't even think it's cheating
• time to rethink what it means to evaluate students in the age of the Internet and omnipresent mobile devices
• opportunity for educators to re-evaluate the type of tests they're giving
• • Good point. If we want students to apply skills and be able to learn on their own, we need to also assess those skills.
• there is a role for tests that measure a student's ability to quickly acquire and interpret information through mobile devices, even if they know nothing about the subject prior to sitting down for the test.
• cheap mobile technology
• omnipresent connectivity offer educators an opportunity to incorporate the technology into their classrooms and even testing
• • Very nice quote: teach 21st century skills but assess with 19th century methodology.
• "We can't teach 21st century literacy and assess with 19th century methodology. We have to look at what we really need students to be able to do when they leave us" and we must ask, "what is my student learning outside of school and how can I get them just as engaged?"
• In the work force, what's important in most situations is not so much the facts you can pull out of your head but your ability to acquire information when you need it and--most importantly--your ability to make sense of it.

  • Oh so TRUE!
• Knowing how to judge the authority of a source and being able to interpret the meaning of information
• is more important than the ability to remember it.
• It's called adaptation

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