{"id":191,"date":"2008-01-17T17:07:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T09:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2008-01-18T07:23:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T23:23:17","slug":"assessment-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/assessment-choices-191","title":{"rendered":"Assessment choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not every assessment in schools has to be  test or an essay. Some other choices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>plan and organise an event,<\/li>\n<li>require a creative work, <\/li>\n<li>write an autobiography, <\/li>\n<li>create a banner, <\/li>\n<li>write a book review, <\/li>\n<li>create a brochure,<\/li>\n<li>write a cartoon series, <\/li>\n<li>make a collage, <\/li>\n<li>conduct a debate or courtroom trial,<\/li>\n<li>make a video<\/li>\n<li>create a Website (or blog or wiki)<\/li>\n<li>play the stockmarket (or forex) with \"virtual\" money<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I've had students who said (when faced with these choices), \"Just give us a test. It takes less time.\"<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There's more than one way to assess - and motivate - learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}