Adventures in Assessment
Dean Shareski,
Ideas, Thoughts,
Apr 19, 2012
The alternative to standardized tests and computer-grading nightmare scenarios: "at its core, the idea of empowering students to assess their own work." Dean Shareski writes, "I have never given my students a test. I'm struggling to see the value, particularly in my course where the intent is to provide students an overview of the way technology can be used to support learning and the way in which it's influencing learning in 2012." But it takes some rethinking, as students today are not ready. "Here they are, students of 13 years of schooling plus a few years of higher education and they aren't sure how to assess themselves. That's scary." It is scary, because there will always be somebody else ready to assess them, usually for their own benefit, not that of the students.
See also Leigh Blackall on open assessment. "That search often leads people to either Wikipedia and/or Youtube both for a quick overview, and developing something in either one of those spaces is not only possible, it seems to me to be the place where one might hope to find enough of a critical mass." And so maybe it's there that open assessment begins.
See also Leigh Blackall on open assessment. "That search often leads people to either Wikipedia and/or Youtube both for a quick overview, and developing something in either one of those spaces is not only possible, it seems to me to be the place where one might hope to find enough of a critical mass." And so maybe it's there that open assessment begins.
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