Assessment

=Chapter 11 ........ Engaging Students in Performance Assessment and Reflective Learning=


 * Key Topics**
 * === High Stakes Testing .......... === || **Involving**
 * Students**
 * in Learning Assessments** || === Teacher Evaluation ===

and Student Feedback Surveys .........
|| === e-Portfolios ..... ===

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|| === Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) === || === Student Participation Systems and Online Polls ................. === || === Civic Engagement & Community Service ........... === ||

** High Stakes Testing **
[|National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing], a nation-wide petition against schools over-relying on high-stakes tests as an assessment approach.

[|The Case Against High Stakes Testing] from FairTest.

**Involving Students in Learning Assessments**
Go to **Conversing section of Democratic Teaching** on the //resourcesforhistoryteachers// wiki for ideas about:
 * Traditional assessments
 * Alternative assessments
 * Rubrics
 * Portfolios
 * Peer and Self Assessments
 * **See Special Topic Page on Quizzes As Active Learning Resources**

** Teacher Evaluation and Student Feedback Surveys **

 * Teacher Evaluation **
 * ** [|NCTE Position Statement on Teacher Evaluation]April 21, 2012 **
 * [|Teacher Performance Assessment Consortium]
 * [|Value-Added Analysis] is defined as the impact that a teacher has on students test scores.
 * For more, see the Los Angeles Times series, [|Grading the Teachers]


 * Student Feedback Surveys **

See Conferring with Students for information on students giving feedback to teachers about their teaching

 * **Includes examples of Student Feedback Survey Policies and Practices for the following states:**
 * **Massachusetts**
 * **Connecticut**
 * **Georgia**
 * **Hawaii**
 * **Kentucky**
 * **Arizona**
 * **Ohio**
 * **Arkansas**



//**e-Portfolios**//
[|e-Portfolios for Learning]

[|Developing Portfolios to Assess Student Learning] from Carleton College

[|Student Portfolios as an Assessment Tool] from Education World

//**Professional Learning Networks**//
Building a Professional Learning Network and Avoiding Information Overload, Torrey Trust, January 2013
 * [|The Connected Educator: Building A Professional Learning Network], Torrey Trust (July 2012)


 * [|7 Tips for Building Collaborative, Fearless PLNs]**

[|My PLN Saved My Career] offers one teacher's perspective on networking with colleagues in education.



** Student Participation Systems **
[|Poll Everywhere: A Teacher Describes Her Experiences]

[|12 Tools for Quickly Gathering Informal Feedback from Students] features Apps such as Poll Everywhere and UnderstoodIt.

[|50 Free Collaboration Tools That Are Awesome for Education].

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//Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions//. Dan Rothstein & Luz Santana, Harvard Education Press, 2011.


 * For research on the value of repeated quizzing to support student learning, see**
 * [|Stuart Singer, "From a Teacher's Perspective: Test, Test, and Then Test Some More]" The Principal Difference (National Association of Secondary School Principals), February 9, 2011.
 * [|Carolyn Y. Johnson. "One Way to Curtail a Wandering Mind During Class: More Testing.]" Boston.com, April 2, 2013.
 * Jeffrey D. Karpicke and Janet R. Blunt. "[|Retrieval Practice Produces More Learning than Elaborate Studying with Concept Mapping]," October 2010.


 * Online Polls**

For one easy-to-do create online poll, see [|Straw Poll]


 * See Special Topic Page on **Quizzes As Active Learning Resources**

** Involving Students in Learning through Community Service and Civic Participation **

 * [|Participatory Politics: New Media and Youth Political] a 2012 study from the MacArthur Research Network on Youth & Participatory Politics found that a significant number of young people are using new technologies to engage in civic and political activities.**

For more see the website of the [|Civic Engagement Research Group] at Mills College.

Click here for information on the [|Edward M. Kennedy Service America Act of 2009] from the Corporation for National and Community Service.