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              April 2004 - Washington Assessment Group e-Newsletter - 
     Edited and published by the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges

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Features

Moore's Musings: The Transition Math Project Moves Forward

As you may or may not recall from our last issue (see March 2004 eWAG for details), the Transition Math Project is a collaborative project involving faculty (from both math and math-related disciplines) from K-12 schools, community and technical colleges, and baccalaureate institutions as well as community-based stakeholders and business leadership...[more]

Welcome to the Speech Communication Discussion Forum

In 2003, several Speech Communication/Communication faculty members from Washington community and technical colleges participated in the State Assessment “Big Ideas” Project.  While last year’s meeting was fruitful, it was limited to a two-hour discussion. Our forum is an extension of that effort, providing additional time for greater depth of discussion about Big Ideas in our discipline, as well as...[more]

Barbara's Cream of the Crop Assessment Ideas

A review of "Student Portfolios and Teacher Logs: Blueprint for a Revolution in Assessment" by Robert Calfee and Pam Perfumo, Technical Report #65, National Center for the Study of Writing at the University of California at Berkeley.

The authors did an intensive review of 150 situations where portfolios were used to assess student literacy at the elementary level. These included statewide projects as well as school and individual faculty situations.  The projects selected were not random, but instead ‘nominated’ and thus somewhat indicative of ‘best practices’ in the field of portfolio assessment...[more]

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