Assessment Past Present and Future CHANGE?
Assessment Past Present and Future, CHANGE? My Global competency roll has allowed me to review aspects of learning and skill development that makes me passionate about how students view themselves over grades. Here are my thoughts on the Past Present and Future of assessment. I believe that it is important to understand that students should be held to high expectations of skill attainment and not just a number grade or level. Past: In what tangible ways is tradition and “the way we’ve always done things” influencing your current assessment practices? Exams and the pressure of high school admittance to post secondary schools drive me to create tests and exams with a variety of material that force kids to memorize content. I also teach at a very academically inclined school where parents and teachers support the traditional methods of kill and drill. Many of our academic students thrive in those situations however it is students who are intelligent and are interested in big...