What are the Framework for Student Learning 21st century competencies?
100
Informs the desired state of learning, achievement and performance.
What are learning goals?
100
A type of assessment that focuses on 'rich' contextualized tasks which require students to produce and construct meaning rather than reproduce, or, recite meaning.
What is Authentic Assessment?
100
Red markings in liturgical documents to indicate how a hymn was to be sung; text in legal documents to indicate a code of law; any authoritative rule of performance
What were the origins of the term 'rubric'?
100
Used for certification, placement, selection of awards & honours, entry into post-secondary and employment opportunities.
What is high-stakes standardized testing?
200
An assessment practice that uses informal observation along with continuous and sustained feedback a.s a diagnostic tool to indicate student progress as well as inform improved teaching practice
What is Assessment For Learning?
200
A type of questioning that elicits evidence of student learning, allows for a range of responses and tests higher order thinking.
What is open-ended questioning?
200
Planning/designing assessment so that the task reflects real-world issues, gives perspective, meaning and value to what is being asked of the student.
What is contexualization of an assessment task?
200
Transparency, fairness, objectivity and dependability of a teacher's judgement
What are the purposes (uses) of a high-quality rubric?
200
Decreasing the amount of time spent on standardized testing and increasing the time to focus on curriculum planning, teaching, and formative assessment.
What is Smart Accountability?
300
An assessment practice that fosters and supports metacognition by asking students to monitor and reflect their own progress, and then use that information to direct new learning.
What is Assessment As Learning?
300
Successful levels of support that help a student reach a higher level of comprehension and skill acquisition to help bridge learning gaps.
What is scaffolding?
300
Construction of knowledge, disciplined inquiry and value beyond school.
What is authentic pedagogy?
300
Task-specific evaluative criteria, excessively general evaluative criteria, dysfunctional detail, equating the test of the skill with the skill itself.
What are the flaws of many rubrics?
300
Grading 'on the curve', using grades as a form of punishment, using zeros.
What are the grading policies that work against standards?
400
A process used by teachers and students during instruction to provide feedback that is used to adjust ongoing teaching for the purpose of helping students improve their achievement and intended instructional outcomes.
What is formative assessment?
400
The difference between what a learner can do without help and what (s)he can do with help.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
400
Group discussions, independent projects, cooperative learning, hands-on learning.
What is active learning?
400
A type of rubric that is general in nature. Characteristics are 'lumped' together and the rubric is used to provide one score.
Learners construct meaning by combining what they currently know with new information they are acquiring.
What is Problem-Based Learning?
500
Explicit sharing of learning goals and success criteria, effective questioning, quality feedback, self-assessment and peer assessment.
What are the five key AfL strategies?
500
Teachers' weak understanding of fair assessment practices, 'teaching to the test', favoring rote memorization over deep learning and student engagement.
What are the barriers to student assessment in Alberta?
500
Building your assessment and rubric by looking at things from a student point of view rather than a teacher point of view.
What is the 'pull' theory of assessment?
500
Not everything should be included in grades. Grading and assessment are not synonymous terms.