Open-ended assessments allow students to: 1) explore their unique interests; 2) capitalize on contacts and experiences; and 3) try a "professional" venture before making a long-term commitment.
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AAQ Prereq 5 – Flexibility
The very idea of flexibility in authentic assessments means that they create opportunities which offer exponentially more growth and development in students than standard, in-class assessments.
What’s your AAQ? (Authentic Assessment Quotient)
Reflection on the authenticity of assessment provides critical opportunity for meeting goals.
What’s your AAQ? (Authentic Assessment Quotient)
Reflection on the authenticity of assessment provides critical opportunity for meeting goals.
GradeProof in Detail, a Review
GradeProof helps students see how they can help themselves and empowers teachers to guide content and help students celebrate success and gain confidence.
Proofreading Made Easy with GradeProof
As a wordsmith for 40 years and an English teacher since 1991, online grammar checking programs annoy me by all-too-often offering students a false reassurance. Popular programs which have everyone talking have, in my experience, missed glaring mistakes and suggested invalid corrections. They don't bring value to the table, even when they are paid programs. … Continue reading Proofreading Made Easy with GradeProof
Big Questions for Research
Video narrative on proposed research in immediate feedback through educational technology.
Learning Through Social Media
For a variety of reasons, social media can provide teachers with additional options for guiding students in responsive classroom-related dialogue using mobile resources.
New World Educators
The future of education depends upon migration from the delivery model to an adaptive, collaborative, multimedia, higher-order thinking, discovery experience in class, led by an educator who serves as a facilitator, lifelong-learner, guide, coach, and crafter of problems to engage learners in new challenges.
Fine-Tuning Feedback
Even with a highly knowledgeable group of learners, feedback and the immediacy of it makes a striking difference to a course, since a two-week delay in response can invalidate any positive impact of the process of peer evaluation.
EmpowerED 