This page outlines the current work-in-progress reports for breakout groups within the Assessments for Learning theme team.
For more detailed information about each group, click on the 'more info' link.
Peer and Self assessment (more info)
Student peer-assessment and self-assessment are 1) ways to embed
assessment without formal testing 2) ways to help students create
and recognize the important issues 3)wasy to ease the load on
teachers, while keeping them well informed 4) ways to track and
record technology use.
Preparing and Assessing Teachers' Readiness (more info)
Our group is focused on developing teachers' (K-20) visions of how
to use technology to support more powerful forms of learning, and
ways to realize those visions through creation of assessments that
embody these changes. We want to move beyond minimum competency
standards and create assessments that accurately reflect the
quality of teacher's understandings about the potential
application...
Instrumentation for large scale evaluation of
technology (more
info)
Understanding Collaborative Process:Case-based digital
Libra (more
info)
We propose to develop and test a prototye case-based system for
helping pre- and in-service teachers develop: a) deeper
understanding of the complex collaborative processes that occur in
inquiry classrooms; and b) theory-based perspetives for assessing
collaborative process. The system will include a variety of cases
representing multiple developmental levels, instructional tasks,
and subject dis...
Assessing deep thinking (more info)
Thinking about assessing process: - interaction, long term
investigation, collaborative process, - group process big issues: -
what collaboration can do - implement larger scale assessments for
teacher vs. embed in the software tools for formative vs. summative
assessment using technology vs. effectiveness of technology ------
Rob: War story -- Math probelm solving produc...
Assessing and Comm. Stud. Lrn. in tech supp. lrn
evironments (more
info)
Questions: o What are the effects of learning and teaching with
technology? o How do we explain what these effects are to the
public? o How to break focus on standardized test scores? Is it
possible to expand the focus, to develop alternative measures, not
necessarily as a replacement, but measures that have a place in
reporting and are valued? We propose to study, validate, and
determine ...
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