To learn for understanding, students need criteria, feedback, and opportunities for continuous reflection from the beginning of and throughout instruction. Traditionally, assessment comes at the end of a topic and focuses on grading and accountability.
Alternative assessment involves teacher feedback, peer feedback and self assessment.
Hudson teachers understand that there are alternatives to the traditional grading assessment. They utilize many ways to examine whether students have mastered essential tasks, questions, and challenges, in performance and through production. We look at work the student has accomplished to determine whether, through their use of what was learned, students are knowledgeable. Teachers in Hudson help students conduct research, teach peer editing and writing group techniques, engage in oral analysis, and collaborate with others. Increasingly, in our classrooms, we encourage discussion, critique, reflection and rich portfolios of work.