The Role of Classroom Assessment in Teaching and Learning by Lorrie A. Shepard, a professor from the University of Colorado, looks at how assessment plays an integral role in teaching and learning.
The author explains how classroom assessment practices must be transformed in two ways in order to help students learn. First, the content and character of assessments must be improved by representing important thinking and problem-solving skills in each of the disciplines. Second, the gathering, use and view of assessment information by teachers and students must become a part of the ongoing learning process.
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