Ongoing Assessment
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ETAP623 : Ongoing Assessment This page last changed on Jan 23, 2008 by wikiadm1.  According to Tina Blythe and Associates when teaching for understanding assessment must do more than evaluate student learning. It is important that the assessment become a tool to inform both the student and the teacher what is currently understood and also indicate where the next learning experience should take them. (pg 71) In order to achieve this you can not wait until the end of each learning expeience to assess, it must happen in an ongoing manner. Each step in learning should have built into it some form of assessment that provides a new learning experience. In other words you should embed assessment into your performances of understanding. By doing this you will be providing opportunities for your students to learn the content of our courses but also to gain an understanding of how and what they are learning. In order to achieve this, assessing for understanding has two areas that must be addressed by each assessment. They are the establishing of criteria and providing feedback. The remainder of this course will focus on these two variables. They are independent of each other but put together build a very strong framework of assessment. Click on either link below to begin the independent study of each. Be sure to complete each unit in order to continue to the culminating activity.
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