Alternative Assessment
Teachers discuss using portfolios, journals and other assessments to evaluate student learning.
Assessing Student Learning--and My Teaching--Through Student Journals
by Bill Heinmiller
This physics teacher finds the challenges of using student journals as an embedded assessment strategy are amply repaid by the benefits.
Assessing Student Understanding with Interactive-Collaborative-Electronic Learning Logs
by Paul Hickman
A Massachusetts science teacher describes how technology enhances communication between student research groups and their teacher.
Dear Mrs. B, Please reconsider...
by Lynn Bradley
An appeals process forces students to examine their approach to problem solving and gives teachers unique insight into students' mathematical reasoning.
Implementing Portfolios and Student-Led Conferences
by Jennifer Williams
This middle school teacher in Minnesota devised an assessment strategy that caught on with teachers of all subject areas.
Standardized Test Scores and Alternative Assessments: Different Pieces of the Same Puzzle
by William E. Loadman and Anne Marie Thomas
Despite the ongoing debate, these two types of assessment do not need to be mutually exclusive; both can provide important information to teachers.
Statewide Portfolio Assessment in Mathematics: A Teacher's Perspective
A teacher who helped implement Vermont's statewide portfolio assessment system tells how and why it works.
Using Self Evaluation with Fourth Graders
by Leah Poynter
Elementary school is not too early to help students learn to assess their own achievement. A veteran teacher tells how.
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