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What are your questions about assessment?

Ruth Ayres

Mark Overmeyer’s new book is available early for your reading pleasure!  Just click here to go to the Stenhouse link for full access to the book, as well as a cool writing challenge (complete with a prize).

However, the really rockin’ part of it all is that Mark is “on tour.”  He’s making appearances around the blog-o-sphere, answering your deep-dark assessment questions.  Yesterday he was at Creative Literacy, talking about things like standing up for authentic assessment (even when we feel alone), DOL, and communicating the importance of formative assessment to parents.  Head on over and read some of his responses.

On July 1, Two Writing Teachers has the honor to host Mark.  He’d be happy to answer your questions, but we need to know them.  Please add a comment to this post with any assessment question that you have, a follow up question to his interview on Creative Literacy, or questions that you have in response to part of his book that you can read here.

We’re looking forward to helping you get your assessment questions answered, and even more forward to hosting Mark on July 1.

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3 thoughts on “What are your questions about assessment?”

  1. Pingback: Welcome Mark Overmeyer! « TWO WRITING TEACHERS

  2. In chapter five you mentioned the importance of being mindful of the way we address grading that reflects missing/incomplete assignments, rather than student achievement.

    In my school students have letter grades for the first time when they start 6th grade with me. Often whether or not they hand in all of their assignments does have a big impact on their grades. Since the students are getting used to the letter scale I check in with them and their parents frequently about missing assignments.

    Do you have any suggestions for helping students have a smooth transition to getting used to grades and letting them know where they stand in the class without discouraging them because of a low grade based on missing assignments? If I only discuss the assignments they do complete and they think they are doing better in the class than they are then they (and their parents) would be upset to get a low score on their final report card that they were not expecting.

    Thank you for your thoughts.

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