Colleen Farris

Image created by Colleen Farris using Canva for Education free images. I have a problem. I am the queen of authentic assessments, but my classroom assessment design skills are lacking. The hands-on assessments I design for my culinary arts students are rich demonstrations of learning. However, I rarely design classroom assessments because my curriculum always includes school-system mandated electronic assessments. In North Carolina, I measured proficiency by selecting test ba

I have been exploring assessment for almost three months. While I did not have the benefit of a broad teacher preparation program as a lateral entry teacher, my recent exposure to the history of grading, assessment, and educational technology in the United States opened my eyes to the manipulation, for political purposes, of our nation’s narrative concerning assessment (Au, 2008; Corrigan and Beazley, 2020, Lampland and Star, 2009). Prior to this, I understood that public edu

As I near completion of the Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) program at Michigan State University (MSU), I am acutely aware of how much more there is to learn. That is not what I expected when I entered the program. I imagined an MAET degree would be a means to an end, but it has become a means to a beginning. When I graduate, I will continue to build on my strengths—my love of learning, my curiosity, my creativity, my facility with technology, and my proble