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What are the Strengths of My Current Assessment System?
Place a check mark beside the strengths
that describe your current assessment
system. Add other strengths if they
aren't listed here. Place a star
beside those strengths you would
like your assessment system to have.
Reflect on the results of this activity
as you plan to start upcoming assessments.
If the strengths of your current
system do not match with your desired
strengths set some goals to make
changes over time.
My assessment system---
_____ Provides interesting, active,
lively, and exciting experiences.
_____ Examines student in unobtrusive
ways within the context of their
natural learning environments.
_____ Establishes an environment where
every student has the opportunity
to succeed.
_____ Allows me to develop meaningful
curricula and assess within the
context of that program.
_____ Assesses on an ongoing basis
in a way that provides a more accurate
picture of a student's achievement.
_____ Puts the emphasis on a student's
strengths; tells what students can
do and what they're trying to do.
_____ Provides multiple sources of
evaluation that give a more accurate
view of a student's progress.
_____ Treats each student as a unique
human being.
_____ Provides information that is
useful to the learning process.
_____ Regards assessment and teaching
as two sides of the same coin.
_____ engages the student in a continual
process of self-reflection and revision.
_____ Results in products that have
value to students and others.
_____ Deals with processes as much
as final products.
_____ Includes higher order thinking
skills.
_____ Fosters learmng for its own
sake.
_____ Provides students with the
time they need to work through a
problem, project, or process.
_____ Involves creating, interviewing,
demonstrating, solving problems,
reflecting, sketching, discussing,
and engaging in many other active
learning tasks.
_____ Compares students to their own
past performances.
This resource last updated: May 14, 2002
Database Information:
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Source: From a 1998 Fall Forum workshop given by Excelsior High School
Publisher: Other
Type: Tool
School Level: All
Focus Area: Classroom Practice
STRAND: Classroom Practice: assessment
Assessment: Portfolios, Exhibitions, Using Rubrics
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