The Vital Link - Volume 5, #1

Testing and Assessment

 

Section 1 - Click here to download
page 1 Learning Assistance Testimonial
page 2 Winners & Losers - Poem
page 3 Editor's Comments
page 4 President's Comments
page 8 Performance-Based Student Assessment by Marie Giesbrecht and Shelagh Lytle-McGhee
page 10 Old vs. the New (1999-2000) in Assessment
page 11 Assessment Techniques Defined by Marie Giesbrecht
page 16 A Guide to Norm-Referenced Testing by Judy Rourke
page 17 Testing - A Word of Caution by Marie Giesbrecht
page 20 Ministry Information on Adjudication by Susan Kennedy
page 20 Assessment and Grade 12 Exam Adjudications
page 22 Guidelines for Educational Testing
page 24 News from the Ministry of Education on Special Education Review Submissions
page 25 New Performance Standards from the Ministry of Education

 

Section 2 - Click here to download
page 28 Assessment Resources for LAT Shelves
page 32 How Does She Learn? What Does He Know? A Functional Assessment Practice by Judy Rourke
page 34 Assessment at the Reading Foundation Clinic by Steve Truch
page 38 Teaching Smart by Gail Saunders-Smith
page 40 Assessing the Ways a Child is Intelligent by Howard Gardner
page 41 What Makes a Good Teacher? submitted by Gordon Gore
page 44 Assessing and Recording the Academic Growth of the Kindergarten Child by Grace Klein

 

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page 47 Student Probe Portfolio for Intermediate Grades by Rhonda Draper
page 55 Reading Assessment Levels compiled by Marie Giesbrecht
page 57 A Simple Start by Jack Williamson

 

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page 68 LATA 1999 Fall Conference Highlights
page 69 LATA Executive 1999-2000
page 70 President's Report
page 71 LATA Newsletter Annual Report
page 72 LATA Conference Chair Annual Report
page 74 Calling all LATA Chapters
page 75 Why Form a LATA Chapter, a Local of the PSA?
page 76 LATA Chapters Questionnaire
page 78 LATA Scholarship/Innovation Grant Application Form
page 79 Letter from the 1999 Scholarship Recipient
page 80 Did You Know?
page 81 LATA Conference
page 82 Learning Assistance Teachers' Association Executive Members

 

 

 


Last Updated: March 24, 2011