Assessment, Teaching and Learning: A Fractured Relationship Assessment in education is the measurement of learning; that is, what a student has learned relative to a set of expectations. If students are tasked with learning the content, knowledge and skills detailed in the curriculum, it seems reasonable to expect that these are the outcomes that a […]
Turnitin.com is widely used in our secondary schools as a text-matching tool for written work, but the tool itself is frequently misunderstood, and sometimes misapplied. This software, in its most basic application, identifies academic integrity issues through its Similarity Reports, which compare student papers with a database of archived content. Turnitin.com checks submitted papers against […]
One of the great things about being a teacher is seeing one’s students grow in confidence and develop their learning over the course of a semester. Usually this is accompanied by the ever-sought-after “light-bulb moment” where a student really “gets” an idea or concept. This can usually be seen by a broad smile or an […]
