What Is the Learning Record?

The Learning Record Online integrates research, assessment, and teaching and learning practices for computer-enhanced literacy development. The Learning Record provides a format for documenting student progress and achievement, based on interviews, observations over time, samples of students' naturally-occurring work, and well-supported interpretations of learning across five dimensions. An 8-page print form (The Learning Record) was developed to facilitate the process. This information is now able to be collected and organized using a web-to-database application that includes a selection of student work, prepared over the course of a semester or school year. The Learning Record provides a way of accounting for learning that is richer and more meaningful than standardized testing, yet provides much more consistency and comparability across student populations than conventional portfolio assessment. It can serve as the sole record of students' achievement, or it can be used to inform and support conventional grading. For the first time classroom and large-scale assessment are seamlessly matched through the learning record system, allowing teachers and administrators to share best practices for improving teaching and learning.

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