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 * Student Assessment and Curriculum Evaluation **

Think about the ways in which you assess students (or for those of you not in schools, how students are assessed or how you are assessed) and how these assessments influence the curriculum. Ideally, assessments should inform us as much about the curriculum as they do the students. Further, stakeholders should use assessment information to continuously improve curriculum.

Try as much as possible to consider forms of assessment beyond the high-stakes tests. You can certainly look at them as part of the larger context, but hopefully the assessments in your context extend beyond standardized testing.

If you get inspired, also consider the points made by Tyler regarding the quality of assessments and address them in your description/critique of your student assessment and curriculum evaluation.