“The most traditional purpose of assessment involves teachers gathering evidence to draw inferences about students’ learning to establish grades and prepare reports,”  (Earl, 2010) this sentence resonated with me instantly, our assessment is an inference. If we look at how we teach inferencing in reading we teach students that what they read combined with their…

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My grade group partner and I collaborate on classroom assessments, using common rubrics for writing, reading responses, and math problem solving in our grade 4classes. This helps us pinpoint student strengths and weaknesses and instructional areas needing improvement. Developing these rubrics aligned with provincial performance standards took us five years, ensuring they are student and…

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Tests and assessments are part of our day-to-day instructional practices and we need the information gained from them to support student learning. I made the connection between the historical views of assessment and learning through scaffolding tasks and breaking them up and assessing progress on the smaller steps as described in the Shepard article to…

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