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  • mLearning – Assessment for a Recording Activity

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    I’ve been taking an assessment online course from the University of Oregon. So, I decided to try to assess my students’ speaking skills through the use of technology and the creation of a simple rubric for the assessment part as a way to have a clear picture of my students’ production. To assess my students,…

  • Learning by Retrieval – Forget Highlighting

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    Highlights everywhere with different marker colors. Blue, orange, green, yellow. The most common sense studying strategy my kids’ teachers use with their pupils. I’ve always wondered what the meaning of all that was, as my kids tend to highlight almost everything! I’ve questioned myself what the connection was between disconnecting parts of a text with…

  • Assessment 2.0

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    I’ve just come across this paper on assesment and the need to change the way we assess, or rather, the way our learners assess their own learning. When will we go from a passive system in which students just show how much they’ve memorized to one they show how much they’ve learned? Couldn’t we start…