Blogging+&+Assessment

Blogging & Assessment
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Let's look at a blogging rubric:



That just makes me cold, let me tell you why …

Dylan William (from his book Embedded Formative Assessment) articulates five key strategies of formative assessment:

media type="youtube" key="B3HRvFsZHoo?rel=0" height="239" width="425" align="right" 1. Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions and criteria for success.
 * //Sharing with students the learning intentions. //**

2. Engineering effective classroom discussions, activities, and learning tasks that elicit evidence of learning.
 * //Finding out where the students are- and what they already know. //**

3. Providing feedback that moves learning forward.
 * //Feedback- not so much looking back- more looking forward to the next steps in the students learning. //**

4. Activating learners as instructional resources for one another.
 * //Students should be seen as learning resources -helping each other in the learning process. //**

5. Activating learners as owners of their own learning.
 * //Activating students to become owners of their own learning. //**

Dylan William identifies about fifty classroom techniques that teachers can use to embed these strategies in their classroom practice.

Konrad Glogowski is a middle years ELA teacher. He really nails what a focus on Assessment For Learning looks like in a blogging classroom.