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ASSESSMENT **//As //**LEARNING


 * Assessment AS learning involves students in becoming more responsible participants in the whole learning process. They: understand the purposes of their work; generate personal learning goals that link into the broader Standards they are working towards; ask themselves metacognitive questions to actively reflect on their progress; and regularly undertake **** informal and formal self and peer assessment. **

‍‍‍‍‍‍1..@http://teaching.unsw.edu.au/designing-assessment-learning ‍‍‍‍‍‍

Due to the five criterias for evaluating web pages of ([|http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu]) I consider this website is one of the best sites that guide and help teachers not only to design assessment as learning tasks but also to show how to design assessment properly reflected on varied resources, a youtube presented and a digram summarising what designing assessment as learning depends on. It's a well organised site with simple interface that helps anyone focus on the material presented. .**The accuracy** is trusted in this site as it's designed and presented by UNSW "The University of New South Wales.Sydney. Canderra.Australia. The home page is provided with a tab called"About us" identifies the university of New South Wales, as one of the Australia's leading research and teaching universities, provided with their email and phone number. The domain of this site is educational and divided into methodological issues divisions concerning teaching and learning and provided with the author's email and phone number, who is responsible for receiving and helping any user in each division. Its purpose is presented to sustain teachers all over the world with resources to help them design assessments appropriately, to be able to facilitate deeper learning experience for our students so they can learn more effectively.**Objectivit**y is reflected in presenting a simple clear definition for assessment as learning, the factors that can effectively help students learn such as applying their knowledge to real world contexts. There are also different tabs and links for different educational issues that can help teachers develop their profession such as curriculum design. Moreover, it presents thirteen links as resources for designing assessment and about assessment tools sustained with a diagram to explain the factors of this type of assessment and a video by Dr.Adele Flood explaining the role of students in this assessment.**Currenc**y is clearly pointed through the updated dates, the current links with one dead link on the page.**Coverage** is balanced between images and text in a simple coherent way,you can view the information easily, properly and free with no limitations to fees.
 * The authority** is presented at the bottom of the homepage by Deputy_Vice_Chancellor (Academic) provided with an e-mail, a phone number and the webmaster Dave Horsley, Web Master DVC Academic via phone or his email.

2. @http://www.cea-ace.ca/blog/brooke-moore/2011/08/2/assessment-learning-it%E2%80%99s-time-seriously ‍‍‍‍‍‍

The first impression I get when I visit this blog is that I' m at my school between my colleagues wandering in a garden of thoughts picking a flower from different countries with different experiences.The blog deals with the issue concerning our fears as teachers from changing our traditional systems of assessment and the obstacles the teachers have during their trials for a change but what is really remarkable is the author 's trials to facilitate these obstacles and present possible alternatives for assessment as giving feedback through her own experience and others' experience.Dealing with **accuracy** in this blog, I think it is quite satisfactory as the author(Brooke Moore) views her opinion and identifies herself and presents all the details about her qualifications and interests as well, provided with her email on the left side of the page.Brooke Moore teaches English at Rockridge Secondary in West Vancouver, B.C and is a member of BC's Network of Performance Based Schools. Brooke is passionate about how assessment can empower and move learners forward. She has shared this passion at workshops and presentations to educators all over BC. She was also invited to share it with BC program principals and Chinese teachers in China.The page provides us also with a contact address and a phone number of the publisher "The Canadian Education Association" at the bottom of the page.Concerning the **authority**, there's a tab at the top of the page called"about us" telling all the details that can acknowledge the user about the webmaster The Canadian Education Association (CEA) which is a cross-Canada network with a strong membership base of leaders in the education, research and policy, not for profit and business sectors. They are committed to education that leads to greater student engagement; teaching what inspire students and teachers and that causes all students to learn;with a contact address and a phone number. The URL domain is ace. and it is published in Canada. **Objectivity** is reflected in Moore's goals which are encouraging and inviting teachers all over the world for shifting their classrooms and mindest from ranking(marks) to learning (feedback).She presents her point of view in an article describing her own experience with her students when she stopped giving them marks and gave them feedback using Rubrics instead. She scaffolds her article with her prezi where she presents her leap from the formal methods to new practices. Then she presents the solution to our fears of changing that even the school's leadership has through brain and education research that have transformed our understanding of learning and was firm about the damage that marks- based systems do to learning. Then she concludes with an article published by Education Canada by/Dan Meyers, an educator in California showing how he tried to limit the gap between the traditional assessment and the feedback ones.**Currency** is reasonable as there's no dead links on the page and the links are updated somehow especially the one for receiving comments, yet the last update was on 23Aug.2011. Finally, **coverage** is sufficient as no limited to fees and there's a balance between the text and the main image on the page. Moreover the tabs, tags and links are sufficient and varied to cover all the user needs. I think this blog is really useful and practical not only for teachers of English,but for all teachers in general.

3. @http://www.ehow.com/list_7294855_assessment-tools-teaching-learning.html‍‍‍‍‍‍

This site enriches our Knowledge and experience about all aspects of" assessment as learning "tools. It's so vivid, cheerful and a rich site with its lovely interface, expressive images, videos and valuable topics such as teaching assessment tools (for free) ,conventional types of assessment tools, student portfolio of self assessment learning styles, peer assessment tools and activities for a teacher assessment.as well as an access to thousands of articles, video files and applications that are intended to provide directions on how to do things. Many of these articles are contributed by people from around the world, and represent a diversity of perspectives, experiences and approaches to issues that may be of interest to the user. Concerning **the authority**,Stephen Saylor is eHow contributor .The site has been established in 1999 and has VeriSign Trust Seal which that is given for the highest level of trust and security.**The accuracy** is provided at the bottom of the page as Demand Media,edu.
 * The objectivity** is reflected in the reasonable advertising and in presenting the different sources of information supported by articles, videos and examples mentionning the author for each material .There are also tabs for related articles and videos, references, receiving comments and assessment tools for learning disabilities.


 * The** **Currenc**y is clearly pointed through the updated dates, the current links with no dead link on the page.**The Coverage** is balanced between images and text in a simple coherent way,you can view the information easily and properly and free with no limitations to fees.

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