Thomas Brandt's List: Assessment

This video features Exit Ticket, a digital assessment tool. However, if you can watch the video focusing on how technology-enhanced assessment strategies can strengthen classroom teaching and learning.

Mia MacMeekin created the following infographic that offers 27 ways to assess background knowledge that may have a place in your classroom.

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Today, with the explosion of digital media, teachers have so many tools at their disposal for assessing what students are learning both as the class is unfolding and at the completion of class.t. What would a digital media exit card look like? Here are some possibilities that utilize mobile devices:"

Over the years this blogger has come to believe that the use of single-shot, for-point assessments is one the worst possible things we can do to students. If the students don't recognize assessments as a chance to show their learning, then these things aren't even assessments.
Fortunately, there are many approaches we can take within our own classrooms to change this situation.

Whether or not the feedback is just “there” to be grasped or offered by another person, all the examples highlight seven key characteristics of helpful feedback:
Goal-referenced
Transparent
Actionable
User-friendly
Timely
Ongoing
Consistent

Formative assessment infographic that shows ideas for assessment with and without the aide of technology.

Educational consultants providing individualized professional development for teachers and administrators. We offer hands-on training using innovative tools and methods that are research based and classroom tested.

This blog post delineates the various interests aligned with badges, and make distinctions amongst the different goals people have for them in hopes of developing a more comprehensive and informed understanding of the emerging badging ecology.

When students create infographics, they are using information, visual, and technology literacies.

Routinely asking students to ponder -- deeply and seriously -- what and how they've learned could be the "mind's strongest glue."

How to give students feedback using a wiki hosted classroom web site

This blog post investigates what meaningful, worthwhile tasks look like?

Students want specific goals in class to push them to try harder. It gives students direction instead of just telling them to “go learn on your own and report back to me”. The teacher sets precise targets which are important to the class, and the students earn a reward for hitting that target. What do they earn? A badge.

This Course will walk you through all the steps needed to create a badge for P2PU. It will provide links to all resources needed, including Open Source software, font files, and initial templates.

In this post, Karen Jeffrey describes two approaches for how to take existing classroom rubrics and design complimentary badge systems.

Curiosity is the name we give to the state of having unanswered questions. And unanswered questions, by their nature, help us maintain a learning mindset. How do we help students discover this drive?

The author discusses designed differentiation, the deliberate act of modifying instruction or an assignment in order to customize the effect to match the particular developmental level and skills of a student or group of students.

Five learning boards that link to assessment resources