Changing Assessment Practices in the Classroom: A Study of One Teacher's Challenge
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article details the challenges encountered by an elementary schoolteacher as he tried to introduce new assessment practices in his classroom. The case study seeks to identify and describe the factors that influenced this teacher's introduction of portfolios and student conferences in the context of the complexity of student assessment practices. The empirical work for the case study, which was set in the context of a collaborative research program, was conducted over a 12-month period with a grade 7-8 generalist teacher, George, in a small urban school. Several modes of data collection were used in the study: classroom observations, informal discussions, and scheduled interviews. Analysis identified four dominant influences on George's implementation of the new assessment program: (a) his beliefs about the nature of teaching and learning; (b) his understandings about these newer forms of assessment and their influence on his other classroom practices; (c) his involvement in the overall collaborative research program; and (d) the contextual influences of the school environment. The study concludes that, without altering his beliefs about teaching and learning and his teacher-centered instructional practices, George would find it particularly difficult to implement a student centered assessment program in his classroom.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".