Assessments and Audiences
I keep coming back to a recent post by Nina Simon: Arts Assessment: Let’s Stop “Proving” and Start Improving. I think Nina really hits the nail on the head. Indeed, when I think of what kinds of assessment will help me improve my own practice as a teacher, it rarely looks like the kinds of quantitative educational data that funders expect. Nina’s post is a reminder to ask questions that make sense to ourselves as educators, because this is where we can really improve our own practice....