Assessment 3.0 Throw Out Grades and

Inspire Learning

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Takeaways

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Traditional assessment fails students

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Assessment 3.0 makes learning an ongoing conversation, free from measurement

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Feedback must be immediate, mobile and invite iteration

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Educators must not allow other shareholders to dictate how learning is assessed

Talk about it

What is the process of grading a student’s work?

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The anatomy of traditional grading

The problem with

weighting

Students in one math class use this rubric

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Students in another math class use this rubric

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Class A Class B

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Each student is perfect on the top three parts but receives zeroes on the bottom two parts

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The Results are in. . .

Chantel’s math project grade: 70/100—C

Ariana’s math project grade: 40/100—F

Shifting Our Practice

Building a conversation

about learning

Sample Writing Assignment1. Write a 400-450 word blog post comparing a character from a

novel you’ve read to an actor’s portrayal of that character in a movie version. This can be any novel, as long as there is a movie adaptation.

2. Write two examples of how the actor’s portrayal makes the character in the movie appear similar to the character in the novel. Supply details that support your response.

3. Write two examples of how the actor’s portrayal makes the character in the movie appear different from the novel character. Supply details that support your response.

4. Explain, in your opinion, why the actor is a good or bad choice to portray the character.

5. Correctly use two vocabulary words from List 15 in your blog post. Highlight the words in the color of your choice, so your readers can easily locate them.

SE2R Feedback

How do we leave all this feedback?

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Mobilizing Feedback

Two-way conversation in a Google Doc

Converse about learning on blogs and other social media

Create a private online room to chat with students about learning

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First graders discuss learning, using Twitter

Voxer for two-way recorded voice feedback

Teacher reads student work and gives verbal SE2R feedback, using Voxer

What about Pushback?

Shareholder concerns• Parent: “I don’t know how my child is

performing without grades” • Administrator: “We need weekly

grades for record keeping”• Teacher: “I don’t have time to write

SE2R feedback for so many students”• Student: “What’s it worth?”

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Responding to Pushback• To parents: “You will be directed to detailed narrative

feedback that will say far more about learning than a grade”

• To administrators: “I can supply a traditional grade whenever you like”

• To teachers: “There are many ways to give feedback that don’t require lengthy narratives and workarounds that make providing narratives easy (Shorthand Feedback)”

• To students: “You are more than a number or a letter; learning is its own reward and can’t be measured”

Assessment 3.0 Change How We Learn

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