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Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

2005

Dr Gabrielle Matters

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Designing Assessment Tasks For Deep Thinking, Gabrielle Matters May 2005

Designing Assessment Tasks For Deep Thinking, Gabrielle Matters

Dr Gabrielle Matters

I want to present some ideas about how a valid and reliable process for assessing deep thinking is not a function of the assessment regime (such as external or internal, standardised or teacher-devised), but is actually a product of the successful application of certain design criteria and the interplay of three essential elements. The argument I present rests on one simple belief that I hold: the capacity to design good assessment tasks is a vital part of an extensive professional repertoire and, as such, demands space and time, ritual and respect. (Teacher–assessors should not let anybody tell them that designing …


The Grading Master : A Simpler Way, Gabrielle Matters Dec 2004

The Grading Master : A Simpler Way, Gabrielle Matters

Dr Gabrielle Matters

What teachers need is a simple structure for expressing assessment criteria and performance standards. Presented is a description of a grading master, a variant of the traditional criteria/standards matrix, as a model for grading student performance.