A Total Bust: Why my best assessment was a smashed sculpture.
As formative as my time at the New College of Florida was – and as liberating as a fully pass/fail college with narrative evaluations instead of numerical quantification was… Today I am going to tell you about one of my most memorable experiences involving assessment before I transferred to New College. I was initially at…
Beyond the Grade: Actionable Assessment that Actually Matters
Published May 25 and last modified May 30, 2026. Assessment in education consists of two primary components: assessing the learner to enhance their learning, and for the instructor to assess the learning in order to improve the whole educational experience. All too often, education focuses narrowly on assessing outcomes rather than embedding assessment into the…
Learning about Learning
May 2, 2026 Once upon a time, young Jamie enthusiastically enrolled in a high school course about HTML (hypertext markup language), through the fairly new Florida Virtual School (FLVS). My affluent public school did not have any computer programming related classes and at that time, Florida was pushing for students across the state to enroll…