Classroom Assessment

Teachers share their strategies for assessing their student's work and their teaching.

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.

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.

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.