Student Assessment
[audio:http://www.centerforleadership.org/blog/podcasts/Student_Assessment_CLE.mp3]

In regards to the network sessions last week, I am posting the PowerPoint presentation that Dr. Phillips presented on “Examining Student Work”.
Examining Student Work

During the course of Universal Design for Learning programs, we often come to the topic of homework. In the January 007 issue of NEA Today, the debate about whether or not homework is good or bad is summarized. Those opposing homework claim that it is “mostly useless.” Those in favor of homework [...]

In 001, the Governor’s Commission for Student Success introduced Senate Bill 1 allowing for new standards and testing in the state of Ohio. Shortly after, Battelle for Kids initialized Project SOAR with 4 school districts to pilot a new measurment metric called Value Added. Six years later, Ohio is in the final stages of adding [...]

Last month, Dr. Ron Walker from Ashland University told me that feedback is indeed a four letter word, it spells g-r-o-w. That same month, one of my favorite magazines, Fast Company, included an article from a famous business psychologist that claimed that there can be no perfection without feedback. Specifically, the author pointed [...]