Education 2.0 & 3.0

Working with students and helping them understand their learning process is important. If you are planning on utilizing project based learning then many of the formative assessments you may choose will provide students with an understanding of their learning process.

How can you include more formative assessments? The post looks at three areas.

* Vary assessment strategies.

* Look beyond content mastery.

* Facilitate self-assessment.

Do you have great formative assessments that you use? Consider sharing one in the comment area.

Thx Beth Dichter!

Very interesting-at least 5 questions will make you think about your formative and summative assessments: do you need all of the assessments you are requiring? could you use different types of assessments than the ones who are using? could students create some of their assessments?

One key part of the Common Core is performance assessments. One question many may have is just what is performance assessment. This post provides a number of descriptions of performance assessments including ones from ETS, five criteria from Wiggins and McTighe based on Understanding by Design and ASCD.

Performance tasks may include project-based learning, drawings, videos, and more.

There is also a discussion on four reasons to use performance assessment. They are:

* Personalized Learing

* Formative Assessment

* Competency Education

* Standards-based Education

For more information click through to the post.

Would role-plays fit into Performance Assessment?