Lake, C. (1997). Constructivism's Implication For Formative Evaluation. In Constructivism and Formative Evaluation, ACET. Retrieved on March 25, 2009 from http://tecfa.unige.ch/staf/staf-e/vimare/staf18/Documentation/CIFFE.pdf. (source from M. Beckman, personal communication, March 17, 2009)
I was very grateful to Mary for providing me with this information. I have a very narrow view of constructivist assessment. I thought if it was paper and pencil, it was not constructivist and if it had to do with creativity and dialogue, it was constructivist. I was a little (very little correct), standardized testing, and multiple choice, under certain condition, can be constructivist provided that there is dialogue between student and teacher and the learning is adding onto student knowledge instead of a reguriatation of facts. This was a difficult concept for me to comprehend. Formative assessment seems to be partial to constructivist, however can at times be not constructivist. At first I thought there were several similarities between traditional and constructivist assessment, but then I wasn't sure. However, it lead into a great discussion with my principal about exactly what is considered constructivist assessment. I still have lots to learn...
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