How We Think About Education

ByTerry Heick updatedOctober 17, 2021

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Terry Heick

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How can the iPad promote a broader set of evidence of understanding? How can it promote the assessment of higher-order thinking skills?

Getting students to 'think about their future' turns into a lecture about bills and 'life'; we project our insecurities and failures on them.

The problem with multiple-choice questions isn’t assessment design as much as it is function and tone--and these things matter.

Assessment for learning is commonly referred to as formative assessment--that is, assessment designed to inform instruction. %

What is the relationship between quality and effect? It's partly causal but that's not exactly it. But there is clearly interdependence.

Mediocre teaching loiters around the lower levels of Bloom's taxonomy. A culture of ongoing inquiry can change that.