How Can We assure Expert Judgment?
The ability to use the criteria to deter mine the quality of students work is what we mean by expert judgment. And it is far from the subjective process some fear. Because the criteria are know in advance to the students (and teachers use them to design leaning experiences that lead up to the appraisal). Assessment becomes a matter of gathering evidence in the student’s performance to support a judgment whether each criterion is met. Some criteria we might identify to assess student ability to perform any of the three tasks about the Civil War note above might include: