Judging Student Performance
Judging Student Performance in Relation to Curriculum Outcomes
Teachers need to be cognizant that performance is only based on what the student demonstrates relative to curricular outcomes. While other factors such as behavior or work habits can be reported, these factors must be kept separate from the demonstration of outcomes.
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Assessing What Really Matters
By identifying key learning goals and building quality rubrics to assess them, teachers can help students focus on the learning that really matters.
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Meaningful Assessment within a Group Context
Meaningful Assessment within a Group Context
Careful planning assists teachers in gathering meaningful assessment information about individual students though group tasks and projects.
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Alignment to Curriculum Outcomes
Alignment to Curriculum Outcomes
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Differentiation – Even within Summative Assessment!
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Supporting Student Success
A teacher at McNally High School in Edmonton describes a number of summative assessment practices he uses that reflect his commitment to fair and equitable assessment of student performance.
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Flexibility in Summative Assessment
Flexibility in Summative Assessment
A teacher at McNally High School in Edmonton allows for flexibility in the timing of summative assessment in the classroom.
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Differentiation: A Call to Action
Differentiation: A Call to Action
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Differentiated Products – or Not
Differentiated Products – or Not
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Differentiating for Individual Student Needs
Differentiating for Individual Student Needs
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Rethinking Commonly Held Beliefs
Many people believe that punishing student misbehaviour with grading penalties will motivate students to demonstrate the desired behaviour. Rick Wormeli provides another perspective for these common classroom assessment challenges.
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Scaffolding for Student Success
What do we do when students don’t understand? We scaffold to support student learning. Scaffolding for Student Success is an AAC professional resource that provides a variety of effective tools to scaffold student learning.
Assessment Conversations: Engaging with Colleagues to Support Student Learning
This new AAC resource has been 'made for Alberta'. It is a practical resource that every system leader, school leader and teacher can turn to for background information, answers to perplexing assessment questions, and concrete ideas for moving assessment practice forward in classrooms, schools and jurisdictions.
This publication has been written with the professional practice standards in mind. Consider this newest AAC resource to be an integral part of planning for implementation of the new standards - for teachers, school leaders and system leaders.
What Matters Most about Assessment
This handy flip book is a valuable reference guide to key principles of sound classroom assessment practice. When used in conjunction with the new AAC ‘Go’ page, www.aac.ab.ca/go, teachers can access resource listings for a variety of videos, professional learning materials, and samples of assessment tasks and techniques.