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  • 1.  IMPACTful Discussions: Your Classroom Assessment Journey

    Posted 09-23-2025 07:40:00

    You have read two instructors' journeys with assessment in our blog "A Tale of Two Teachers: Rethinking Assessment in the Math Classroom"

    What has your classroom assessment journey been? 

    What are some gems you have discovered that you would like to share?



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    Karen Gaines
    myAMATYC Online Community Coordinator
    Professor Emeritus - St. Louis CC
    Kirkwood MO
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  • 2.  RE: IMPACTful Discussions: Your Classroom Assessment Journey

    Posted 09-30-2025 09:19:00

    To me, this is a great topic because assessment has become fundamental to my teaching. In my classrooms, assessment happens every day. At the beginning of class, I hand back the assignment from the previous class. Then an introduction and a bit of teaching on the current topic or a new one. And then it's "here's question one on today's assignment". The class works on that question. I get to go around the class helping where needed and commenting on how well students are doing. Some more teaching and moving on to question two. Doing an assignment during class gives me feedback -- did I explain things well enough? It gives students the immediate opportunity to translate what they hear and see into doing (a challenging translation). And each class's assignment is worth marks, giving students motivation to attend. This involves work after class for me, but the assignments are not long, and their content and what I actually mark on them is my choice. I see this extra work for me well worth the time, because I am seeing what each student is doing and I can comment on that. Assignment questions morph into test questions, so the path to student success in the class is very clear. Underlying this approach to teaching is my aim to bring all the students along with me in the semester's journey. Assessment is usually talked about as formative and summative. Formative assessment defines my approach to teaching. 



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    Don Vander Klok
    Lambton College
    Sarnia ON
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  • 3.  RE: IMPACTful Discussions: Your Classroom Assessment Journey

    Posted 09-30-2025 09:38:00

    Love this question and the discussion. I've been exploring assessment for the last few years after starting my journey with Joe Feldman's Grading for Equity which I was lucky enough to read with a cross-disciplinary group at my college and then with an amazing group of statistics educators as a reading group before USCOTS years ago. Since then, I've explored standards-based grading in Linear Algebra (using TBIL and Drew Lewis' materials), ungrading in Discrete Math, and strange mixes of specifications-based, labor-based, and everything in between in the calc series and statistics. 

    I actually put together this list of resources back for AMATYC's 2022 conference when I was on a panel on grading. It's could use an update, but there are a ton of math folks who share resources on alternative grading and assessment out there! I'll be presenting with Peter Keep in Reno on the same topic and can't wait to continue this conversation there. 

    I wish I had time for a longer post! 



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    Kelly Spoon
    Associate Professor
    San Diego Mesa College
    San Diego CA
    6193882670
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