Turn your classrooms and school into an interconnected learning community where ALL students feel respected, valued, and leave wanting to return because they enjoy learning and find your lessons fun and engaging.
Electromagnetism Laboratory. Guided inquiry. Grade 8 Physics. Fall Term 2017.
It is important to distinguish between summative and formative assessment. Assessment and feedback should facilitate evaluation that in itself is geared for yet another learning opportunity for students -- where students build their confidence and reaffirm their newly gathered strengths and skills while also getting a chance to improve through access to a diverse array of resources that tap into their multiple intelligences. Simultaneously, they should also be given ample opportunities to show their improvement and progress via diverse modes of communication. Ideally, show and tell should provide choice for students.
Assessment is Practice.
Evaluation is the Big Game.
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/policyfunding/growSuccess.pdf
Evaluation should ideally not discourage students from trying again. Evaluation should not demoralize students. Evaluation should not decrease students' love for learning or subject matter and should not 'kill student creativity.' It should instead empower students by highlighting their strengths and emphasizing what they can do and not what they cannot do. Areas that need improvement should be highlighted alongside but in specific step-by-step immediate feedback fashion and students should have an opportunity to try again.
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