Using Classroom Assessment to Change Both Teaching and Learning
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Those who have used Classroom Assessment over the past several years are confident about one thing: Classroom Assessment is good for both teachers and students. As a feedback strategy that provides teachers with data on teaching effectiveness and student comprehension, Classroom Assessment also involves students in active mental processing of new information and makes them more aware of themselves as learners. Classroom Assessment (Angelo and Cross, 1993; Cross and Angelo, 1988) is an educational innovation that unites efforts to improve both teaching and learning.
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