[NIFL-ASSESSMENT:192] RE: EFF Assessment

From: Mary Schneckenburger (Mary_Schneckenburger@umit.maine.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 16:12:08 EDT


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Dianna,

Do you mean that students will probably be able to show more evidence of growth in their knowledge base, fluency, independence or range if they have successfully included all the components of performance in their learning or work?

I must confess that when I was I the classroom, I was indeed constantly looking for evidence of learning or problems and assessing my students but can see ways of including them in the assessing now that I didn’t know about then. So for me,
including them in powerful ways in the assessing or even turning it over to them is what is different now: making it visible and allowing them to take the responsibility for it.

Mary




I finally read this EFF report. I agree with the focus on embedding
assessment in instruction. I think many teachers do this in an informal way.
EFF is giving us a "formal" way to do this.

I understand Mary Schneckenburger's question about where the components of
performance are in the assessment piece. The way I understand is that since
the students are using all the COPs in the learning activity, the "product"
of the activity which will probably be used to document the range, fluency
and independence of the students is the result of the students using all the
COPs. (I really had a hard time getting that thought into words).

Does this make sense or am I waaay off base?
Dianna B.
OLRC




Mary Schneckenburger

Staff Development Specialist
Center for Adult Learning & Literacy
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University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5766
207 581 2498 ext. 19 (office)
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