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Presented by Darryl Bussiere, Val Martineau, and Jessica Nikula for EDEL 561, March 29, 2011.
For the past half a century, there have been considerable "cultural, social, economic, political, environmental, and technological changes [which] have meant that every facet of schooling has been subjected to investigation and rethinking, including classroom assessment" (Western and Northern Canadian Protocol for Collaboration in Education, 2006, p. 3). With the push for creating 21st century learners who are able to use, produce and publish information using the collaborative opportunities available to them, it is essential that assessment become relavent to student learning. Every classroom consists of diverse learning needs that cannot be evaluated using one set means of assessment, and as a result, teachers have sought out a variety of assessment practices. Our wiki is meant to present you with three different forms of assessment; each having its own place in evaluation of students.

To get us started on our discussion of assessment, please compose a 1 - 2 sentence personal definition of what assessment is, and contribute this to the voicethread discussion below. (Helpful hint: compose your thoughts before listening to everyone else's definition.) We have included several different images - feel free to choose whatever one appeals to you when responding.

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What is assessment? Here's a wordle that captures some key terms to consider when thinking about assessment.

Now that you've had a chance to think about what assessment means to you, and seen words, and their perceived importance, associated with it through the Wordle, please check out our pages on @assessment of learning, @assessment for learning, and @assessment as learning.