Talking About Assessment Conversations
My Rationale: My goal has been to create a system that authentically involves students in their own assessment. A system that abolishes the autocratic enterprise that can be more traditional assessment practices. This way, assessment can cease to be something students are subjected to and become something they're intimately involved and invested in. Simply speaking, my specific intention behind assessment conversations is to infuse more student voice into my assessment. Is there a better way to achieve that than having students' literal voices incorporated into their assessment? Here's a step-by-step breakdown of these assessment conversations: Step #1: Student Self-Evaluation After completing a project, students fill in the following their Assessment Conversation Self-Evaluation (see examples below) . It mostly mirrors the single column rubric students receive with the project. However, rather than "Areas to Celebrate" and "Areas to Address," the Sel