Constance E. Brooks

CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT IN THE 20 TH AND 21 ST CENTURY Nitko & Brookhart (2011) If the assessments lead to evaluations that culminate only in grades or numbers, then the results cannot be used to improve future assessment, instruction and learning.

CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT IN THE 20 TH AND 21 ST CENTURY Only effective teachers can facilitate the process. “A measure of those skills merely provides a number; assessment guides responses” (Greenstein, 2012, p. 2).

PROGRAM TRANSFORMATION, PROCESSES AND CHALLENGES This was not always easy for all team members and has some gray areas, but it is vital to growth in all areas (programmatic; instructional - teaching methodology; participants – students, interns and MAT team members) for continuous improvement.

Transformation & Processes It was decided that if team members were not at the end of E-Beginners (79% functioning) at (level 1), they would not be skilled enough to become E-Experts (90-95% functioning) at level 3 (end point) in four years (2012)..

Transformation & Processes Those team members who demonstrated knowledge and exceptional willingness to use, differentiate and implement skills at a midway point were invited to continue with the team. Their skill levels evidenced an exceptional willingness or ability that was at the end of (level 1) with the potential to be midway at E-Novice (80-90% functioning) at (level 2) before 2010.

Transformation & Processes The E-Expert at its end point of (level 3) appeared to be where change could accelerate. The program needed team members at (level 3) end point who evaluate (justify and judge) and create (produce).

Transformation, Processes and Related Challenges Thus, the team became E- Experts at (level 3) not by choice, but out of necessity. The program is nationally accredited by NCATE and national councils. What we did was courageous, but what we learned was the difference it made in our lives by transforming assessments and rubrics electronically.

WE ARE A LOT HAPPIER MOVING TO E-ASSESSMENTS. TRANSFORMATION: FOREVER AND WHAT’S NEXT?