If You Hate Assessment You're Doing it Wrong

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If you hate

ASSESSMENT

Dean ShareskiCommunity MangerDiscovery Education

You’re Doing It WrongDean ShareskiCommunity MangerDiscovery Education

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@shareski

shareski.ca

dean_shareski@discovery.com

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@shareski

shareski.ca

dean_shareski@discovery.com

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@shareski

shareski.ca

dean_shareski@discovery.com

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@shareski

shareski.ca

dean_shareski@discovery.com

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http://dlc.com/defetc14 

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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

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http://shareski.ca/y/3h4

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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http://www.flickr.com/photos/mullhaupt/2227174639/

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Self/Peer Assessment

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/rzganoza/4186516481

“Who owns the learning?”

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/rzganoza/4186516481

“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

http://www.flickr.com/photos/celloc/4194343038/

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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.”

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