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

Video
Kids Are the Experts! Making Learning Visible in Boston Public Schools
Published: 2012
During the 2011-12 school year, 30 Boston Public School early childhood teachers and eight Head Start teachers took a course called Making Learning Visible: Kids are the... Read more
Video
Documentation: Transforming our Perspectives
Published: 2012
*/ This 16-minute film by Melissa Rivard and Stephanie Cox Suarez for the Documentation Studio at Wheelock College features conversations with leaders from Reggio about the... Read more
Article
HULA Review of Humanities-related Assessment Instruments
Published: 2012
Book
Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence...
Published: 2011
From the back cover: How can classrooms become places of intellectual stimulation where learning is viewed not in test scores but in the development of individuals who can... Read more
Book
Places to Play in Providence: A Guide to the City by our Youngest Citizens
Published: 2011
The guide that resulted from a collaboration between the Making Learning Visible team at PZ and a school-readiness initiative, Ready to Learn Providence (R2LP). The... Read more