Assessment is an essential component of education. Assessment is part of the planning, instruction, assessment cycle. Also it is a step along the two-way path from enduring understanding to specific learning activities and from specific learning activities to enduring understanding.
Assessment helps the teacher know how to modify instruction for a particular student in order to help the student maximize their potential. From the perspective of the student, the proper viewpoint in a learner-centered class, assessment is a node in a stream of reflective thinking and an opportunity to find out what one knows and what one is still learning.
Assessment must be multi-faceted including many types and styles. Assessment must be authentic and clearly coupled to normal learning tasks.
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I suspect you know more about assessment than any of us! Hopefully we can help with finding ways to implement varying assessments in ways that might have been posing difficulties and/or consider some of the opportunities (and costs) with some of the open, public kinds of assessments and activities...
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