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Assessing Student Understanding Through Drawings

When students translate the concepts they’re learning into visual representations, it reveals much about how deeply they understand the material.

March 3, 2022

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Students don't need highly developed artistic skills to express what they're learning by sketching it out, and their drawings can often tell you more than a simple multiple choice quiz or writing assignment can. For more on this topic, check out Shveta Miller's article "Using Drawings for Formative Assessment."

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