Assessment

Remember when we were kids?  We’d anxiously wait for the teacher or maybe a classmate to pass back our papers so we could see our score.  If we did well, we’d have that moment of excitement.  If we did poorly, we’d cringe and stuff the paper into our desk or backpack. And that was about it. The score didn’t really change our behavior or help us learn better.  It was basically a “gotcha” or a “yay you” that went into the grade book, never to be seen again until report card tim