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Understand Assessment Strategies

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Overview Assessing students has been a part of the teacher's job since the opening of the very first schoolhouse. However, assessment today is very different from the assessment that happened in one-room schools on the prairie. Today, most educators would agree that assessment is, for better or worse, not only how students are measured but also how schools and teachers are measured. Assessment occurs at all levels, from the classroom to the national.

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Publisher	Microsoft Tips	File Format	HTML
Date Published	December 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Training and Certification

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