Bob Sprankle's article "Caught on Video" has revolutionary assessment ideas for the classroom. He argues that letter grades are arbitrary and should be phased out. He argues instead of asking "how well are you doing?" We should ask "what are you doing?" and the response should be filmed.
I can understand that it is more meaningful to have students describe what they are doing as their assessment as opposed to giving them a letter grade, but this sort of assessment is cumbersome, time consuming, and does not work as a convenient currency, like letter grades.
I think his
idea of filming the students on the first day of class, having them talk about what they anticipate to learn, and what their goals for the year are, and then viewing them at the end of the year is a great idea. He also suggests having the student demonstrate solving a problem on film which can then be viewed later. This demonstrates fluency and comprehension which can be a great confidence booster for the student.
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