Assessment as Learning Classroom

Environment
1. Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions and criteria for success –
getting the students to really understand what their classroom experience will be
and how their success will be measured. Certainly student involvement and
participation here is critical.
2. Engineering effective classroom discussions, activities, and learning tasks that
elicit evidence of learning – developing effective classroom instructional strategies
that allow for the measurement of success. While this component has been
traditionally teacher driven, with today’s Common Core State Standards, students
are collaboratively taking part in engineering classroom activities and discussions.
3. Providing feedback that moves learning forward – working with students to
provide them the information they need to better understand problems and
solutions. In collaborative settings, students are providing their peers with this
feedback at increasing rates.
4. Activating learners as instructional resources for one another – getting students
involved with each other in discussions and working groups can help improve
student learning.
5. Activating learners as owners of their own learning – student self-awareness and
self-regulation is playing a larger role in more classrooms.
 Assessment for Learning Classroom
Environment
• Making the learning more collaborative
- Collaboration between teachers and students and
between students and their peers
- students can explore their own ideas, hear
alternative ideas in the language of their peers,
and evaluate them.
- everyone is included and challenged and train
students to listen to and respect one another’s
ideas