Assessment, Evaluation & Documentation

Making Thinking Visible (Article)

Making Teaching Visible: Documenting Individual and Group Learning as Professional Develop

How can careful consideration of groups at work enhance the learning of preschool, elementary, and middle school students and their teachers? Building on research conducted with educators from the Municipal Infant-toddler Centers and Preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy, researchers from Project Zero collaborated with pre-Kindergarten to grade 8 teachers in Massachusetts to examine how ideas developed in Italian preschools could enhance preschool, elementary, and middle-school education in the United States. Making Teaching Visible includes the stories of what the teachers learned through documentation and provides a framework for considering how documentation of individual and group learning can serve as professional development. Because it also contains thoughts on how to support this type of professional development, it provides a valuable tool for making classrooms and schools more powerful learning environments. 

The Evidence Process: A Collaborative Approach to Understanding and Improving Teaching...

The Evidence Process: A Collaborative Approach to Understanding and Improving Teaching and Learning, 2001. A handbook for administrators, staff developers, and teachers interested in, or already involved in, looking at student work collaboratively with colleagues. It describes and provides resources for an inquiry process developed by Project Zero working with public elementary and middle schools in Massachusetts.

ARTS SURVIVE: A Study of Sustainability in Arts Education Partnerships

This report shares findings and provides perspectives for partnerships to consider as they seek to build their capacity to survive and to thrive over time. It contains questions for partnerships to consider in building these capacities. Including sketches of the twenty-one arts education partnerships selected for this study, bibliographic resources, a research context for the study, and reflections from many Arts Survive! Advisory Group Members and Senior Consultants, the report provides tools for promoting the long-term sustainability of arts education partnerships between schools and arts organizations, artists, and/or cultural institutions. Whether you are an artist working in the schools, a teacher, an arts administrator, a parent, a school administrator, a school board member, or a funder, we hope these tools will be useful as you consider how best to sustain the life of your arts education partnership. 

Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners

In this richly-illustrated book, the culmination of a two-year research collaboration between teachers and pedagogues from Reggio Emilia and researchers from Project Zero illuminates ways in which documentation can foster both individual and group learning, creating a relationship between them. They identify methods and processes that will enable educators to reflect not only on the learning processes of children but also on those of adults.