THE BEST OF THE MARSHALL MEMO
Carefully chosen summaries to energize leadership, teaching, and learning
Assessment for Learning
Improving on Traditional Assessments
- How classroom assessments can change the game
- Common problems with classroom assessments
- Why a college professor stopped lecturing
Effective Checking for Understanding
- Nine ways to use assessments
- A teacher realizes what he wasn't doing
- Crafting good "hinge" questions
Low-Tech and High-Tech Tools
- Simple assessments that involve all students
- What clickers can do for teaching and learning
Following Up with Students
- Using assessments to improve teaching and learning
- Using formative assessments well
- Putting on-the-spot assessment data to work in math classes
