{"id":65549,"date":"2018-12-27T15:49:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T20:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=65549"},"modified":"2018-12-27T15:49:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T20:49:54","slug":"assessment-for-learning-it-just-makes-sense-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/12\/27\/assessment-for-learning-it-just-makes-sense-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessment for Learning: It Just Makes Sense [Box]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/articles\/educational-assessment\/assessment-for-learning-it-just-makes-sense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Assessment for Learning: It Just Makes Sense<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from facultyfocus.com by Cathy Box<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Assessment for Learning (AfL), sometimes referred to as \u201cformative assessment\u201d has become part of the educational landscape in the U.S. and is heralded to significantly raise student achievement, yet we are often uncertain what it is and what it looks like in practice in higher education. To clarify, AfL includes the formal and informal processes that faculty and students use during instruction to gather evidence for the purpose of improving learning. The aim of AfL is to improve students\u2019 mastery of the content and to equip and empower them as self-regulated, life-long learners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There are many strategies that serve the purposes of AfL, commonly centered around three questions: 1) Where am I going? 2) Where am I now? and 3) How can I close the gap? (Chappuis, 2015; Sadler, 1989; Wiliam, 2011). This process represents a natural progression from the beginning of a lesson to closing the learning gaps at the end and provides a recursive loop when necessary. The following narrative describes two AfL strategies that I have found work extremely well in my courses, resulting in higher quality work, leaving me time to provide feedback on the more challenging aspects of the assignment. These strategies fall under the question \u201cWhere am I going?\u201d and are true to the tenets of AfL, having a significant impact on learning and putting students squarely in the driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u201cIndeed as one of the most prolific writers on the topic, Alfie Kohn suggested, \u2018assessment should be an unobtrusive servant of teaching and learning.\u2019<\/span> <\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/modernlearners.com\/provocation-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assessment for Learning: It Just Makes Sense &#8212; from facultyfocus.com by Cathy Box Excerpt: Assessment for Learning (AfL), sometimes referred to as \u201cformative assessment\u201d has become part of the educational landscape in the U.S. and is heralded to significantly raise student achievement, yet we are often uncertain what it is and what it looks like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,68,28,115,302,71,150,3,119,46,102,7,62,173,89,50,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-assessment","category-cmslms","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-faculty-staff","category-formal-learning","category-higher-education","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-online-learning","category-pedagogy","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65550,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65549\/revisions\/65550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}