This echoes a question from the comments on Lexie’s blog:
On Assessment
One of the problems we face it how to asses whether our students learned what we intended them to learn. In a classroom setting, we give tests and quizzes. We give homework that has to be passed in. We assign projects and grade them. But we also look to see who’s keeping up with classroom discussion and who’s actually making cogent commentary. We tend to think that, for the most part, the student in our class did the work if we can see them doing it. We tend to evaluate homework with an eye toward, “Does this sound like Johnny?”
When we’re thinking about assessment, how *do* we know … ?