Kristin Phillips
Where did that teacher go? Helping students become independent thinkers
I was looking at some of the EQAO (Ontario’s standardized test in grades 3, 6, 9 and 10) questions in an attempt to understand why many...
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Kristin Phillips
Jan 29, 20163 min
Triangulation of assessment data-recording observations and conversations
We know that we should be using “triangulation of data” to assess and evaluate students. We know that we can often find out more about...
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Kristin Phillips
Jan 8, 20164 min
Determining Report Card Grades-no easy task
In the olden days, determining the report card grade was easy. A teacher’s mark book had a collection of grades which were added...
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Kristin Phillips
Nov 20, 20153 min
Feedback is for teachers, too
Last week I wrote about effective feedback and the different ways students might get feedback during the learning process. This feedback...
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Kristin Phillips
Oct 2, 20154 min
Rubrics versus letting kids “give it a go”
I must admit that I don’t love rubrics. They take a long time to write and sometimes it is hard to know what they actually say, even...
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Kristin Phillips
Sep 11, 20154 min
Diagnostic Assessment–10 things to think about
September is the time for diagnostic assessment. It is good to know what your students already know and don’t. But I wish the word...
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Kristin Phillips
May 6, 20153 min
Feedback, motivation and grades-some wonderings
Some teachers and I had an interesting discussion last week about how despite our best efforts at giving feedback, students weren’t so...
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Kristin Phillips
Mar 5, 20153 min
Assessment in a collaborative inquiry model
Of course good things (like having kids collaborate in groups) often cause us to rethink a whole bunch of other things (like...
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Kristin Phillips
Dec 5, 20143 min
Maybe Assessment for Learning isn’t the right term?
The term “assessment for learning” (educational acronym AfL) was coined by Wiliam and Black in their 1998 article “Inside the Black Box”...
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Kristin Phillips
Oct 9, 20144 min
Multiple Entry Points into Learning: there is no such thing as average
We know that in any given learning situation students arrive at different places. When I first started my teaching career at the...
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Kristin Phillips
Oct 3, 20143 min
Assessment Conversations
Assessment is the hardest thing you do. You need to think about myriad of things all at the same time: What do I assess? Content? ...
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Kristin Phillips
Sep 14, 20144 min
Rethinking diagnostic assessment as entry points
It being September, I had quite a few good conversations about diagnostic assessments this week. Quite a few years ago, the practice...
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Kristin Phillips
May 23, 20142 min
Is it feedback or assistance?
As we move into writing June report cards and are beginning to think about assigning grades, it is helpful to differentiate between when...
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