The Village Green

Clarence Fisher on his Remote Access blog has posted some interesting characteristics of what a evaluation might look like for a classroom 2.0 school.  He makes a great point about how much attention everyone has been giving to teaching 2.0 and not so much to evaluations 2.0.  Below is a selection of ideas from the post:

• posting the exams online and letting the kids work things out over a few days
• letting students gather information from any source: library books, textbooks, their personal learning network
• the exams would include both knowledge and skills components for each subject area
• exams that are multi disciplinary and problem based or focused
• students may be required to post something online or use a tool such as ustream and feedback might be collected from various sources 
• this feedback might offer the students an opportunity to revise and improve the work they have completed before calling something a “final draft”
• the students themselves might be involved in designing the assessments, giving them an opportunity to have input regarding what they feel are the big issues and important learnings they have worked with so far in the school year

 
My personal favorite is the last one. I think there is a lot to be learned by having the students design the assessments. You have to know a lot about a specific topic to know what is important enough to assess. To this list I might add group work.  Evaluations can be made for the team and the contributions of individual members.  What would you do if you could redesign assessments from the ground up in your classroom?

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