{"id":5060,"date":"2015-03-29T03:25:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T03:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2015-03-29T11:33:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T11:33:55","slug":"assessment-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/2015\/03\/29\/assessment-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessment is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Assessment is no longer, if it ever truly was, paper and pencil tests focused on language knowledge. From oral interviews, open ended questions, portfolio work, and student generated exams, assessment has grown to better meet the needs of individual language learners in specific contexts. And yet, assessment is still filled with stories of heartbreak and missed opportunities. In this issue, iTDi members carry on the discussion of what assessment often is, what it can be, and where it might be moving.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/2015\/03\/29\/the-why-of-testing\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5082 size-thumbnail aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kevin-Stein2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kevin-Stein2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kevin-Stein2-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kevin-Stein2-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>The &#8216;Why&#8217; of Testing by Kevin Stein<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/2015\/03\/29\/assessment-is-sometimes-heartbreak\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-376\" src=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Naomi.jpg\" alt=\"Naomi Epstein\" width=\"150\" height=\"140\" \/>Assessment is Sometimes Heartbreak<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/2015\/03\/29\/reassessing-assessment\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-3717\" src=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dave_dodgson-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Dodgson\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dave_dodgson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dave_dodgson-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dave_dodgson-115x115.jpg 115w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dave_dodgson.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Reassessing assessment<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-4972\" src=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/iTDi-circle-150x150.png\" alt=\"iTDi-circle\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assessment is no longer, if it ever truly was, paper and pencil tests focused on language knowledge. From oral interviews, open ended questions, portfolio work, and student generated exams, assessment has grown to better meet the needs of individual language learners in specific contexts. And yet, assessment is still filled with stories of heartbreak and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/2015\/03\/29\/assessment-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Assessment is&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assessment-is"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}