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...

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...

In the olden days, determining the report card grade was easy.  A teacher’s mark book had a collection of grades which were added...

Last week I wrote about effective feedback and the different ways students might get feedback during the learning process.  This feedback...

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...

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...

Some teachers and I had an interesting discussion last week about how despite our best efforts at giving feedback, students weren’t so...

Of course good things (like having kids collaborate in groups) often cause us to rethink a whole bunch of other things (like...

The term “assessment for learning” (educational acronym AfL) was coined by Wiliam and Black in their 1998 article “Inside the Black Box”...

We know that in any given learning situation students arrive at different places.  When I first started my teaching career at the...

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? ...

It being September, I had quite a few good conversations about diagnostic assessments this week.  Quite a few years ago, the practice...

As we move into writing June report cards and are beginning to think about assigning grades, it is helpful to differentiate between when...