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This is one of the biggest discussions among Portuguese teachers now a days:

What is the best way to do the assessement of skills?

Wich ones are more important in MST?

Are lab skills important?

I think that evaluate skills is a challenge and for young students makes more sense to evaluate skills than concepts. What is your opinion?

A very interessting paper, Valerie, and it answers also partially the other thread on assessment on informal activities.

This is a quote from the reference you give: "Formative Assessment Is Responsive in That It Can Be Informal. The teachers referred to assessment as both formal and informal. In saying this, they were usually referring to whether the information gathered was recorded and reported in some way or whether it was used in the classroom activities, without a written record being made. Formative assessment tended to be informal, with no written record of the information gathered."

I know of a colleague that keeps all those records when he is designing an educational research experiment. Maybe we need some incentive to keep track and analyse those data. But it would be a very good idea indeed!!!

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Hi Andreu and Albert!! I'd like to join in that research effort, if possible! I am open to any suggestions.

Hello

welcome to everybody in Spice CoP and thanks for your interest in Assessement thread.

It would be interesting to have more information about assessment research projects. Albert could you give us news about your plans for that topic ? Would be great!

Andreu, Peter and Dora please continue also your discussions here; All of you caught the idea of this Communities

Valeria