Summative TPGP
Voting with your feet is a prime example of a way to activate the space within a classroom.
possibility of making the books for another library or school in the community/global community, could promote higher level thinking around the students ecological or societal position in the world.
To be clear I am not suggesting that our group was treated unfairly, I understand that good assessment is explicit in its goals and should be tailored to show a teacher where students are at in comprehending specific learning objectives. Our group was not being assessed around the broad understanding we collectively held of Vygotskis work, instead the assessment was more specifically directed to address the framework of educational theories that had been presented through the 401 material. This is where I identify the concept of clear expectations as pivotal. I approached the assignment with my own expectation that if I worked hard and gave the assignment an honest effort I would do reasonably well. I think that it is safe to assume that attitude is in line with the expectation that Dr. Brent Davis had of the 401 class. Therefore the expectation breakdown must have come out of the assignment. What I expected would be valid submission was not so valid in Dr. Brent Daviss expectation of the assignment. For me this means that when I am in a position to assess my students learning through assignments I need to pay particular attention not just to how well the students comprehension was reflected in the assignment but how the assignment acts as an accessible scaffolding that aids students to communicated their comprehension in a way that is beneficial to both the learner and the evaluator.