Learning Opportunities

“Assessment 101” is designed to provide practical strategies and approaches to making the best quality assessment instruments.  The series will include discussion on how to most effectively use information gathered through assessing, to provide achievement information to students, parents, and other audiences.  This session emphasizes the “practical” rather than the “theoretical” so that participants take home with them tangible means to affect change in how they asses on a day-to-day basis.

Participants are encouraged to discuss their assessment issues related to topic addressed and how such issues may be best resolved.

Based on participant interests, several of the following topic will be addressed:

• Assessing for the big ideas
• Applying the principles of fair assessment
• Making the best use of formative assessment
• Constructing rubrics and other scoring methods
• Crafting appropriate constructed responses and performance assessments
• Providing effective exemplars of student work

This learning opportunity is being offered through funding from Alberta Education.