Return-Path: <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f9TDj4021331; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:45:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:45:04 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <40AE0637F967D5118227000347710D4701C43D3F@SDECTEX> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Gopalakrishnan Ajit (MIDD)" <Ajit.Gopalakrishnan@po.state.ct.us> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:31] Re: question X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Status: O Content-Length: 2169 Lines: 63 "What assessment matters" i.e. reporting/funding requirements is a very important force. However, I would hope that instructional decisions are not made solely based on that. Assessment to me is part of the process of instruction. Ajit Ajit Gopalakrishnan Associate Consultant Connecticut Department of Education 25 Industrial Park Road Middletown, CT 06457 Phone: (860) 807-2123 Fax: (860) 807-2127 mailto:ajit.gopalakrishnan@po.state.ct.us -----Original Message----- From: Don Seaman [mailto:dseaman@tamu.edu] Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 11:26 AM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:29] Re: question The reason that thinking is prevalent is that we are playing numbers games for reporting and funding. Our staff members, at a training session, presented "It is allowed" which identifies and promotes alternative assessment procedures. It was received quite well, but many folks in the audience indicated that they would be evaluated by the numbers they produce so they probably weren't going to change using tests as their main, if not only method of assessment. At 06:42 PM 10/26/2001 -0400, you wrote: >I have just come back from a meeting where assessment for ABLE students was >discussed in one of the sessions. An observation made by the facilitator of >this session (I was facilitating a different session so I couldn't attend) >was that the teachers in the discussion group think of assessment as the >usual standardized tests (TABE, BEST, etc). Only two of the teachers at this >session mentioned alternative assessments. Have others found this to be true >in the ABLE teachers you are in contact with? What sugggestions do you have >for changing the thinking of folks? >Thanks, > Dianna Baycich >OLRC >330-672-7841 >1-800-765-2897 x27841 >dbaycich@literacy.kent.edu >Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies >to trying to prove the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly >succeed and are right. >H.L. Mencken Don Seaman Texas Center for Adult Literacy and Learning EAHRD-College of Education 4226 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-4226 Telephone: 979-845-5472 FAX: 979-845-0952
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