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Grading For Learning

Guest Blogger – Ken O’Connor CAfLN is a network that is “dedicated to nurturing and sustaining Assessment for Learning (AfL) . . . across Canada,” but given that every province and territory (unfortunately) requires % grades, at least for grades 9-12, we need not only to “assess for learning,” but we must also “grade for

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Reflections on My Experience with Assessment Practice

Submitted by Beate Planche ED.D. In considering what the influences have been on my own understanding of sound assessment practice, I think first of my experiences years ago with YRDSB’s assessment literacy project. As a team, with members across areas and schools, we put our understandings on the table – and supported each other’s thinking

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Measuring What Matters: Phase 3 Progress Report

Submitted by David Cameron from People for Education This report provides an update on People for Education’s Measuring What Matters (MWM) initiative, including some of the early findings coming out of the school field trials. … it isn’t about what [students] understand about seasonal changes in my science curriculum, it’s how they’re thinking critically and asking questions

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Hacking Assessment : 10 Ways To Go Gradeless In a Traditional School

A Book Review by Denine Laberge Many parents and educators will argue that “This is the way we’ve always done it and it isn’t broken!” To this, Starr Sackstein offers some sound advice, “… the world has changed in the last hundred years and … a 19th century system doesn’t prepare kids for the creativity

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Increasing Literacy Achievement and Learner Confidence in Remote Rural Schools in British Columbia

Submitted By: Paige Fisher This video series is a great resource that provides teachers and project coaches with vivid working examples of core instructional strategies that can advance student literacy and cultural understanding, particularly the use of rich Aboriginal texts and formative assessment strategies. VIU Assessment film series

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Embedded Formative Assessment

Submitted by Robin Tierney Embedded Formative Assessment was recommended to me by a CAfLN member in British Columbia. Dylan Wiliam’s work is well-known by educational researchers who are interested in the quality of classroom assessment. This particular book differs from many that are written by academics for practitioners in two important ways. First, the tone

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