if you hate assessment you're doing it wrong
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Presentation for FETC 2014 in Orlando, FLTRANSCRIPT
If you hate
ASSESSMENT
Dean ShareskiCommunity MangerDiscovery Education
You’re Doing It WrongDean ShareskiCommunity MangerDiscovery Education
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How Do you Define Learning?
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“I try to distinguish between contexts of productive and unproductive learning. And by productive, I mean that the learning process is one that engenders and reinforces wanting to learn more. Absent wanting to learn, the learning context is unproductive or counterproductive.”
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“Information will be learned slowly and doomed to
rapid forgetting unless they are quickly attached to a framework of knowledge that we already possess.”
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Rick Stiggins Alfie Kohn Cathy Davidson
Ken O’ConnorJoe Bower
Assessment Heroes
Grant Wiggins
Could you pass this test?
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Could you pass this test?
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Why we need to rethink Assessment
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“We may not be able to measure learning, but we can document it”
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“MEASURABLE OUTCOMES MAY BE THE
LEAST SIGNIFICANT RESULT OF LEARNING”
Dr. Linda McNeil
“If you say you don’t have time for assessment, you assume that the teaching is more important than the learning. Feedback is the key to reaching goals.
“If you say you don’t have time for assessment, you assume that the teaching is more important than the learning. Feedback is the key to reaching goals.
Saying there’s no time is to confuse causing learning for mentioning stuff.” Grant Wiggins
Assessment is not a Spreadsheet
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Assessment is not a Spreadsheet
It’s a Conversation16
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How We Might Begin to Rethink Assessment
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4 Big Ideas
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Self/Peer Assessment
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“Who owns the learning?”
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“Who owns the assessment?”
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What did you learn from others?
What did you contribute to the learning of others?
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Student Choose Weighting
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“Taught me to examine my work critically”
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“...enabled me to focus on learning”
“Taught me to examine my work critically”
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“...enabled me to focus on learning”
“I wasn’t comfortable assessing myself”
“Taught me to examine my work critically”
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The Trouble With Rubrics
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Unintended Learning
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Put Technologyto Work
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Meta Cognition 1867 - 2005
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Press Record
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Press Record
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Reduce Workflow
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Reduce Workflow
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My Evernote Trick
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My Evernote Trick
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My Evernote Trick
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My Evernote Trick
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My Evernote Trick
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My Evernote Trick
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My Evernote Trick
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Show Your Work
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Board Builder
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Make it Matter
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ATHLETIC STAGES
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ARTISTIC STAGES
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WHERE ARE THE ACADEMIC STAGES?
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The World as Your Refrigerator
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The World as Your Refrigerator
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The World as Your Refrigerator
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Warning:
Work that Matters is Really Hard to Assess
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Model
SAGE ONTHE STAGE
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SAGE ONTHE STAGE
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GUIDE ONTHE SIDE
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GUIDE ONTHE SIDE
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MEDDLER IN THE MIDDLE
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What About You?
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What About You?
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The Learning Project
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My Teaching Staff
Inquiry isn’t just for kidshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/6579378601
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How Much Wheat to Make a Loaf of Bread?
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How Much Wheat to Make a Loaf of Bread?
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Don’t Complicate Assessment
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Don’t Complicate Assessment
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Don’t Complicate Assessment
What Did You Learn? What Can You Do? Why Does it Matter?
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“The business model of school is simply going to have to
change -
we just can't sell facts for a living any more.”
Stuart Firestein 62
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shareski.ca@shareski
Thanks
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