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- Ask Ellen: Can Common Tests Assess Uncommon Kids?
... in mind," and then to think much differently about how we assess student learning. When you are building a common assessment, it poses ... at Santa Cruz, a resource for educator-induction research, policy, and practice. Bewitched? Bothered? Bewildered? Ellen ...
Article - - 6/9/2008
- Assessment Overview
... Assessment Instructional Module: Learn How To Assess Student Projects FEATURED CONTENT ... portfolios + assessing student projects + research + authentic assessment + formative assessment ...
7/7/2008
- F for Assessment: Standardized Testing Fails
... two decades. Such tests were typically created to better assess students' mastery of the officially approved skills and knowledge. ... books and a former president of the American Educational Research Association . Assessing Assessment: Want to Learn More? ...
Article - - 8/6/2008
- Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum?: The Reasons Are Many
... integration must happen across the curriculum in ways that research shows deepen and enhance the learning process. In particular, it must ... effective ways to reach different types of learners and assess student understanding through multiple means. It also enhances the ...
Article - - 7/3/2008
- Why Teach With Project Learning?: Providing Students With a Well-Rounded Classroom Experience
... a deeper knowledge of the subjects they're studying. Research also indicates that students are more likely to retain the knowledge ... a standardized test, which will never really be able to assess true knowledge. As far as having to do, or not having to do, Project ...
Article - - 8/19/2008
- Childhood's End: Growing Up Too Fast
... goals for the student and how the teacher will monitor and assess the accomplishment of those goals. Benchmarks are set. Meetings are ... of 'Hurried Child' and 'burning out kids' with dittos. Research on music is also detrimental to education. Most students I would guess ...
Article - - 8/6/2008
- Healthier Testing Made Easy: The Idea of Authentic Assessment
... while to get used to if you teach, test, and move on. The research could not be clearer, though: Increasing formative assessment is the ... learned the hard way about transfer and the need to better assess for it. The practice drills did not seem to transfer into fluid, ...
Article - - 8/6/2008
- Building a Better Teacher: Confronting the Crisis in Teacher Training
... R's are not enough anymore. Based on scientific research, good teaching is one thing we know makes a big difference in ... teaching. University staff visit classrooms regularly to assess candidates' progress and provide feedback. All the while, the ... This is maximally inefficient and ineffective way to assess student teachers' abilities because it is decontextualized from what ...
Article - - 8/20/2008
- Studies in Success: A Survey of Assessment Research
... scores for students. Credit: Edutopia Academic research points to the benefits -- and identifies ongoing challenges -- of ... Their work is summarized in the report, "Can Portfolios Assess Student Performance and Influence Instruction? The 1991-92 Vermont ...
Article - - 7/15/2008
- Urban Academy: Where Testing Is Anything But Standard
... the cumulative representation of such skills as analysis, research, and scientific thinking, all of which the students are expected to ... student paper. Kudos. Thinking beyond the test to assess knowledge When there is a demonstrated method of ensuring that people ...
Article - - 8/18/2008
