Assessing for Learning

Features

More than Paper Load: What Does All This Student Work Tell Us?
Catherine Garrison
Educators often overlook the largest body of evidence of student performance: student work.

Examining Your Practice: Feedback as Part of Assessment
Grant Page
Providing effective feedback gives new life to student assessment.

Teaching Away from the Test
Beth Kloos
Hands-on learning activities give students a break from tests and let them really shine.

Beyond the Teacher Hat
Monica Dee Lumley
Consider yourself a learner as well as a teacher and you see new possibilities.

DARE Middle School Program Revamped
Elizabeth S. McConnell
A middle school staple gets new meaning.

People Get Ready … A Call for Data-Driven Instruction
Brenda A. Dyck
Perhaps collecting data is only part of the learning reform equation.

Student Voice. Middle School: So Worth It
Lily Hope Wilkinson
A student reminds us why we love the middle school.

Accepting Students' Feelings
Gordon Vars
A veteran educator shares a strategy for helpiing teachers understand their students.

Departments

Editor's Note
Patricia George

Perspective
Sue Swaim
Make the Home—School Connection

News to Use
Information to promote effective middle level education.

Teams in Action
Rebecca Timson
Problem-Solving Across the Curriculum

Hot Links
Brenda A. Dyck
Dancing with the Data

Teaching in the Middle
Rick Wormeli
Turning Zeroes to 60s

The Mark of Leadership
Marian White-Hood
What To Do About Assessment. Strategies from the Front Line

Reviews and Resources
Books and resources of interest to middle level educators.

Megaphone
Amusing, interesting, and provocative comments from the field of middle level education.

Spotlight On Science
Bruce Hayden, Jr.
Creative Writing in the Science Classroom