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Assessment is...
  • an imbedded interstitial tool that someone might proactively elect to use, or that someone might encounter either formally or informally, at different times during a lifetime of effort and learning.
Assessment...
  • offers an opportunity for someone to demonstrate knowledge and skills.
  • provides personal encouragement, or more globally standardized evidence regarding what an individual might achieve.
  • can force someone to reflect, appraise, and perhaps re-prioritize.
  • encourages reconnoitering of one's current bearings, possibly motivating change in direction or even complete remapping to a new route to get to where one wants to be.
  • may suggest that one should seek additional resources (family, friends, mentors, time, money, other assets) for help with tasks to reach one's goals.
  • provides objective insight into what is worth holding on to, e.g. particular values and beliefs, goals, or particular knowledge and skills. Also offers clues about what can be discarded, e.g. inessential or distracting stuff.

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NJ Spotlight 2019Feb26 article: NJ Assembly withdraws PARCC bill due to worried parents... bill attempted to respond to adverse court decision and resulting uncertainty about students graduating in 2019, by clarifying use of PARCC as students's path to graduate
NYT column on: the business of figuring out what students have learned.
NYT article on: California project to assess nonacademic measures, such as social-emotional skills, in judging school performance.
TrustED column on: measuring the learning growth of students to see how well schools are helping students progress.
Book and movie: "Beyond Measure: Rescuing An Overscheduled, Overtested, Underestimated Generation"
NYT article on: a link between school quality and home prices, or not?
Education Week article on: Michael Moore film (2015) that looks to Europe for education policy ideas
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