Thursday 10 June 2010

Formative and Summative Assessment

"As coach and facilitator, the teacher uses formative assessment to help support and enhance student learning, As judge and jury, the teacher makes summative judgments about a student's achievement..."




Atkin, Black & Coffey (2001)

Atkin, J M., Black, P.J., Coffey, J.E. (Eds.) (2001) Classroom Assessment and the National Science Education Standards. National Research Council, National Academy Press: Washington DC.

Friday 4 June 2010

wikis and reflection

[S]tudents cannot learn what either teachers or technologies know. Rather, students learn from thinking – thinking about what they are doing or what they did, thinking about what they believe, thinking about what others have done and believe, thinking about the thinking processes they use – just thinking. Thinking mediates learning. Learning results from thinking.

David H. Jonassen et al.

Jennifer Horton Benichou and Kathleen Huggard,


The English Language Center