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Assessment Principles, Practices and Resources
Classroom Assessment is Changing!
Alberta Teachers' Association - The Learning Team - Volume 14 - Number 2
Written specifically for a parent audience, this article highlights how new research into how the brain works and how students learn best has helped educators rethink the purpose of classroom assessment and how to make it more effective. Please check the Terms of Use on the ATA website for copyright information.
Principles for Fair Student Assessment Practices for Education in Canada
University of Alberta - Center for Research in Applied Measurement and Evaluation (CRAME)
The Principles for Fair Student Assessment Practices for Education in Canada contains a set of principles and related guidelines generally accepted by professional organizations as indicative of fair assessment practice within the Canadian educational context. Assessments depend on professional judgment; the principles and related guidelines presented in this document identify the issues to consider in exercising this professional judgment and in striving for the fair and equitable assessment of all students.
Grade Level of Achievement Reporting: Teacher and Administrator Handbook (updated 2009)
An Alberta Education publication
“The most crucial part of communicating student learning is to ensure a shared understanding between the current teacher, the student, parent, and the future teacher receiving the information. …While the communication process involves all the key players, the greater role students are given in this process, the richer the information that is shared and the greater the impact on future learning (see for example, Stiggins, 2001).”