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Tips for Managing an Assessment System
The following guidelines will help
you as you attempt to manage the
modification and implementation
of your assessment system:
- Don't tackle your whole assessment
system at one time. Start out
by revising one assessment
to an alternative approach.
- Find at least one other teacher
(more if possible) who is also
interested in alternative assessment
and who is willing to co-investigate
with you. Doing so will make
your task easier, and the results
should have greater credibility.
Don't set an unrealistic agenda
for change.
- Incorporate students into the
process of developing assessment
tasks. They can learn as they
develop an assessment tool,
plus their involvement builds
student motivation for assessment.
Use the work of your best students
to generate criteria and indicators.
- Don't worry about perfect. Many
times good is enough.
- Use technology. For example,
develop (or have someone else
develop) computer templates
for creating rubrics and other
scoring devices. Fill in the
tasks, standards, criteria,
indicators, weights, etc.,
as each device is developed.
This prevents the need to design
each device uniquely.
- Remember that up-front work
on assessment makes the job
faster and easier in the end.
This resource last updated: May 14, 2002
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Source: From a 1998 Fall Forum workshop given by Excelsior High School
Publisher: Other
School Level: All
Focus Area: Classroom Practice
STRAND: Classroom Practice: assessment
Assessment: Planning Backwards, Portfolios, Exhibitions
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