reflection

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Describe in words the transformation that maps an object to a transformed image.
• Given a geometric figure and a rotation, reflection or translation, draw the transformed figure (or the original
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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Recognize and visualize transformations of 2D shapes.
• Translate, reflect and rotate shapes, and combine these transformations.

It also aims to encourage discussion on some common...

This research paper finds that teacher candidates’ Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT) scores, a performance assessment that measures their capabilities as future teachers, are significant predictors of their later teaching effectiveness as measured by their students’...

In this report, Linda Darling-Hammond outlines an integrated approach for a teaching-career continuum and a professional development system that supports effectiveness for teachers at every stage of their careers. The report includes specific guidance about how performance assessments based on...

Comprehensive, coherent systems of teacher development and evaluation are needed to meet our goals of a high-quality education for all students. The article includes specific information about the role of performance assessment in supporting teacher preparation and development.

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This paper seeks to clarify the responsibilities of policy makers to create the conditions for an effective accountability system that produces substantial improvements in student learning, strengthens the teaching profession, and provides transparency of results to the public. The authors point...

This article authored by Linda Darling Hammond for CCSSO, outlines the criteria for a Student Assessment System, which should:

• address the depth and breadth of standards as well as all areas of the curriculum, not just those that are easy to measure.
• consider and include all
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This report is aimed at supporting state boards of education that are working on providing significantly more students with deeper learning opportunities and facilitating board-level conversations on key related topics. The report provides foundational principles that underlie deeper learning,...

This paper is about transforming how students learn and lead by re-evaluating the systems that govern teacher learning and leadership.  By integrating a variety of research evidence and narratives, the author examines current reforms' limitations, explore deeper learning’s promise, and summarize...