Return-Path: <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g15HULu02784; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:30:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:30:21 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <007001c1ae6a$dcbc9f40$cd607b83@educ.kent.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Dianna Baycich" <dbaycich@archon.educ.kent.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:78] Performance based assessment X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 871 Lines: 22 Hi, Thought you might be interested in this article ASSESSMENT FOR UNDERSTANDING Throughout the country, many educators are moving beyond traditional tests and using performance assessments to give students the experience, as expert Grant Wiggins says, "of being tested the way historians, mathematicians, museum curators, scientists, and journalists are actually tested in the workplace." The result is a deeper learning experience for the student and a more complete picture of student performance for teachers, parents, and others interested in what students know and can do. http://glef.org/assessoverview.html Dianna Baycich OLRC 330-672-7841 1-800-765-2897 x27841 dbaycich@literacy.kent.edu Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right. H.L. Mencken
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