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A journey of learning, growing and reflecting

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Posted on 16 Nov 201816 Nov 2018

Sharing my learning publicly

  They say you should always do one thing that scares you. Giving a TedxTalk is exactly that thing for me. I adore TED talks and am always amazed at…

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Posted on 15 Nov 201819 Nov 2018

What’s the big data deal?

Throughout educational literature, we are inundated with messages about the power of assessment to do everything from developing learner agency, to improving the quality of teachers (Wiliams, 2016), to guiding…

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Posted on 15 Nov 201822 Nov 2018

The Assessment Capable Teacher, Part 1

A number of times, after sitting through a moderation session with a group of teachers, I’ve asked myself, “Did our rubric really measure what our students are capable of doing?…

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Posted on 15 Nov 201819 Nov 2018

The Assessment Capable Teacher, Part 2

Validity, Reliability, and Fairness As discussed in a previous post, assessment literate teachers – or assessment capable teachers as the PYP calls them – understand standards of assessment quality. The…

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Posted on 15 Nov 201820 Nov 2018

Teachers’ Beliefs and Assessment Capabilities

It is a well established truism, that our beliefs as teachers impact our practice. This idea was further reinforced in reading Gavin Brown’s article Teachers’ conceptions of assessment: implications for…

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Posted on 15 Nov 201819 Nov 2018

Using Data in Teacher Inquiry Groups

A few years ago I introduced teacher inquiry groups in my school. Teacher inquiry groups (TIGs) are collaborative inquiries conducted by teachers based on an area of practice or problem…

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Posted on 15 Nov 201819 Nov 2018

What data do I have and where is it?

Now that I have identified what skills and knowledge we need to be able to make sense of assessment data, I began wondering about what data we actually have and…

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Posted on 15 Nov 201820 Nov 2018

What can my data tell me?

As PYP teachers, assessment data has a pivotal role in our professional inquiries as a source of “evidence”. However, before we can begin using assessment data purposefully, we need to…

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