Assessing and Evaluating Students' Learning

This was a very interesting article to read.  Many different teachers and people feel there are many different ways to assess a students' learning.  With all of the studies that are around about how to assess and evaluate a students' learning, not everyone is using those methods in their classrooms.

What I liked about this article is it mentions that as teachers, we have the ability to chose what we emphasize as important.  We will then create our lessons with that in mind.  Our students then need to know what we are putting importance on for them to learn.  Therefore, we need to be aware of our choices in the classroom and how we will be evaluating and assessing our students. 

My eyes were opened to the idea that some assessments are actually "correct answer" assessments (225).  While we start assessing our students, we need to be aware of how our assessments are affecting our students in their educational confidence.