CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT
CONNECTING GRADING WITH LEARNING

Session 5:
Open-Response Assessments
3/24/04

Those who have been required to memorize the world as it is will never create the world as it might be.
-Judith Groch

[Volcano Mike]

Topic Activity
Issues of Interest Connections
Assignment #4 Discussion
Lecturette
Short-Answer Items Discussion
Lecturette
Good Questions/Prompts/Tasks/
Assignments
Evaluative Criteria
Building Tasks
Fatal Flaws
Task Design		 Discussion
Lecturette
Jigsaw
Scoring Considerations
Rubric Choices
A Rubric for a Rubric
More Scoring System Options		 Read Aloud
Right Angle Thinking
Discussion
Lecturette
Appointments

References:
Arter, J, & McTighe, J. (2001). Scoring rubrics in the classroom. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. Lewin, L., & Shoemaker, B. J. (1998). Great performances: Creating classroom-based assessment tasks. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Popham, W. J. (2003). Test better, teach better: The instructional role of assessment.Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Popham, W. J. (2002). Classroom assessment: What teachers need to know. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Smith, J. K., Smith, L. F., & De Lisi, R. (2001). Natural classroom assessment: Designing seamless instruction and assessment. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Theory of multiple intelligences. (n.d.). Retrieved March 24, 2004, from Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Project SUMIT Web site: http://pzweb/harvard.edu/SUMIT/MISUMIT/HTM

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