Assessment, Evaluation & Documentation

Assessment, evaluation, and documentation are essential to any teaching and learning process. The way learning is documented and assessed directly influences what gets taught. Rather than a focus on products, assessment should focus on documenting a combination of learning processes and products as a way to inform pedagogical decisions.

Resources

Book
Arts PROPEL: An Introductory Handbook
A resource from Arts PROPEL

Arts PROPEL: An Introductory Handbook
A resource from Arts PROPEL

In the Arts PROPEL approach to instruction and assessment, students write poems, and tackle other real-life projects as the starting point for exploring the works of practicing artists. Prepared by Project Zero and the Educational Testing Service with the help of teachers and administrators from the Pittsburgh Public Schools, the Arts PROPEL handbooks: An Introductory Handbook, A Handbook for Imaginative Writing, A Handbook for Music, and A Handbook for Visual Arts, offer guidelines and models for creating a project-based curriculum and using portfolios to assess student work in the arts.

Download Introductory Handbook

×
Book
Cultures of Thinking Initiative
A resource from Cultures of Thinking

Cultures of Thinking Initiative
A resource from Cultures of Thinking

The Cultures of Thinking Project is a global initiative under the direction of Dr. Ron Ritchhart, a Principal Investigator and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The CoT initiative considers education to be a social and cultural endeavor whose goal is the development of both the individual and the group as effective learners and thinkers able to engage with and adapt to a changing world. Within this context the most important assessment question we can ask ourselves as educators is: Who are our students becoming as thinkers and learners as a result of their time with us?
For more resources, please see here.

CoT Initiative

×