Better than tests
If not standardized tests, then what?
That question was soundly answered last night at the forum, “Assessments that Make Sense” in Bronzeville (photos coming)
A room crowded with parents, teachers, students and community members from all over the city heard Monty Neill present two successful alternatives to standardized testing accountability:
That question was soundly answered last night at the forum, “Assessments that Make Sense” in Bronzeville (photos coming)
A room crowded with parents, teachers, students and community members from all over the city heard Monty Neill present two successful alternatives to standardized testing accountability:
- the Performance Assessment student project-based model used in New York in place of state Regents’ exams, and
- the Learning Record, a teacher- based observation and reporting system that has been used in dozens of Bureau of Indian Affairs schools and in California and New York City.