Unleashing Curiosity by Assessing for Learning
Unleashing Curiosity by Assessing for Learning
Assessments shouldn’t be the ends of learning, but rather a part of learning—a means to help students engage in deep learning and master challenging content. By redefining assessments as a tool for learning, we can help students find and close gaps in their own knowledge. This is the essence of curiosity!
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Using assessment as a learning tool often requires a shift in our views of the purpose of assessment, how students demonstrate learning, what is done with the results, and how classroom culture supports learning. This 8-page quick reference guide provides fresh thinking and practical advice to help teachers
work together to view assessment as a means to learning rather than the end of learning, so that instead of stifling student curiosity with our approach to assessment, we can release it.
Our Unleashing Curiosity guides are part of McREL’s Curiosity Works® resources. Based in part on a successful system-wide effort in Melbourne, Australia that improved student achievement by unleashing student curiosity, these resources give teachers and school leaders tips, suggestions, and ideas to encourage professional dialogue with other teachers and increase student curiosity. Combining these insights with McREL’s analysis of best education practices from around the world, our Curiosity Works resources support a better way of transforming schools—not through top-down pressure, but through helping teachers and school leaders work together to develop shared professional expertise and leverage the power of motivation and curiosity.