"If we expand our definition and consider how we use it to our advantage, we don't have to breathlessly await state test results in hopes that our students showed growth. We can take matters into our own hands if we are willing to include and use what we see and hear in our classrooms every day as data." (p. 151)
How are students in your class progressing?
How do you determine what your students NEED next?
How do we plan instruction to get students to the next level?
Are we running from or embracing assessment?
What's a goal you would like to set for yourself concerning assessment?
I agree that we need an arsenal of both formative and summative assessments. My goal is that my assessment and my teaching are both on target to aid in student learning. I change what I do with each group of students that I teach and often feel that I am constantly changing what I do to no avail, but I know on another level that I am doing what is best for the students that I have at that time. I wish, sometimes, I could be like some teachers who never have to plan because they have done the same things for 20 years (or more), but I know that I’d never be satisfied with that. I embrace the new things that each group of students teach me.
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