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Randy Ziegenfuss

Education Futures - Ken Robinson on standardized testing - 0 views

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    "Ken Robinson goes on the offensive against standardized testing in a post-industrial society … and hits the issue on the head:"
Kevin Bush

Standardized testing hurting U.S. education, new book contends | MSU News | Michigan St... - 0 views

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  • flawed policy that threatens to undermine the nation’s strengths of creativity and innovation,
    • Jennifer Volpato
      Jennifer Volpato on 07 Jul 10
       
      this is certainly an understatement, it's all about the programmatic skills of the test, not actually about learning
    • Kevin Bush
      Kevin Bush on 07 Jul 10
       
      I am always struck by how political leaders who haven't been in the classroom think the answer to making education better is to test more, then punish those schools which perform poorly. The focus has too much been on the test and not the learning going on in the class.
  • an education that respects individual talents and does not dictate what students learn or how teachers teach.
    • Jennifer Volpato
      Jennifer Volpato on 07 Jul 10
       
      absolutely
    • Kevin Bush
      Kevin Bush on 07 Jul 10
       
      You should check out Ken Robinson's series on creativity in the schools, one of the best TED talks out there.
  • “Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization.”
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  • stuck “teaching to the test”
  • “The essence of his strategy was to stop being creative and imaginative.”
    • Jennifer Volpato
      Jennifer Volpato on 07 Jul 10
       
      how is it that success has now been reduced to what we can prove we know on paper versus what we are creatively able to produce? Standardized testing certainly has been around for my entire education but there was not so much pressure on student performance, school performance, etc.. For some students, our 8th graders for example, it determines honors placement. Standardized test should be a measurement, a snapshot, not the whole picture. Li
  • reward schools for offering a diverse set of opportunities
  • “Most importantly, we need to instill confidence – restore confidence – in our teachers and in our schools, because right now the accountability rhetoric in essence is telling us we don’t trust our educators – that they are not good enough, they are lazy, and that’s not the case.”
  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    "America's increasing reliance on standardized testing as a yardstick for educational success is a flawed policy that threatens to undermine the nation's strengths of creativity and innovation, according to a provocative new book from a Michigan State University scholar."
Randy Ziegenfuss

New Types of Assessments for Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "Testing represents a commitment to high academic standards and school accountability. When the financial and emotional stakes associated with standardized tests are disproportionately high, this laudable goal becomes distorted."
Randy Ziegenfuss

What's Wrong With Standardized Tests? | FairTest - 0 views

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Standardized testing assessment

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    A list of standardized test FAQs from FairTest - the National Center for Fair and Open Testing.
Bridget Doklan

Test Problems: Seven Reasons Why Standardized Tests Are Not Working | Education.com - 0 views

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  • Bridget Doklan on 06 Jul 10
     
    "What's wrong with measuring academic progress through standardized tests? Here are some reasons why high-stake tests are problematic."
Randy Ziegenfuss

frontline: testing our schools: parents' guide | PBS - 0 views

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Jul 10
     
    This site breaks down the world of standardized assessments into easily understandable chunks. Designed for parents, the site offers a particularly useful chart presenting testing issues and what supporters and critics say about each.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Test Scores AND Authentic Learning - The Educator's PLN - 0 views

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PBL PLN ning assessment standardized

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 13 Jul 10
     
    This is a group of people who think lifelong learning and student choice are not in direct opposition to paying attention to standardized test scores.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Digital Alternatives to Test Preparation - Gaming in Education - 0 views

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  • challenge based
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      challenge-based
  • a historical
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      A historical what?
  • accept, let
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      accept. Let
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  • standards and
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      standards, and
  • In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania critical
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
  • embrace changing
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      embrace the changing
  • Through gaming students
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      Through gaming,
  • alternative in schools
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      Alternative to what?
  • From wikipedia (excerpted)
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      Provide the link.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      And the article title
  • fun, games
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      fun. Games
  • completed by Project Tomorrow more
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      Good use of external data.
  • There are online
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      Fix this sentence.
  • Immersed in their learning, it will happen without their realizing it.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      Fix this sentence.
  • World of Warcraft.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      Add a link to explain?
  • He says:
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      Can you link to the speciic post? Good use of other sources.
  • level which
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      levels that
  • require to co
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      require who?
  • While playing Benjamin
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      While playing, Benjamin
  • 1. freedom to fail; 2. freedom to experiment; 3. freedom to fashion identities; 4. freedom of effort; and 5. freedom of interpretation
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      Great synthesis and explanations below.
  • How gam
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      I'm sure you know this, but it should be fleshed out more.
  • Gaming as an Alternative
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 25 Jul 10
       
      Here is where you take everything you've said and make your case as a an alternative to the way teachers traditionally prepare students for standardized tests.
Randy Ziegenfuss

testing « Search Results « Moving at the Speed of Creativity - 0 views

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    A collection of blog posts around NCLB, testing and standardized assessments from Wes Fryer's Speed of Creativity.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Standardized Testing - 0 views

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standardized testing education pros cons assessment

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    While this is a personal web site developed by a college student, there is some interesting information, particularly in the pros and cons sections.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Standardized Testing Fails the Exam | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "If enough educators -- and noneducators -- realize there are serious flaws in how we evaluate our schools, maybe we can stop this absurdity."
Randy Ziegenfuss

Leading Project-Based Learning / FrontPage - 0 views

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pbl professional development project leading

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    "Embark on a journey to make learning more relevant and engaging to students and ourselves. Our focus: to develop standard focused projects infused with real world relevance."
Randy Ziegenfuss

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    "Our research-based and standards-aligned free educational math games and language arts games will engage, motivate, and help teach students."
Jennifer Volpato

Digital Alternatives to Test Preparation - Assignment - 0 views

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  • global impact
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 07 Jul 10
       
      I like this choice of lens.
  • My quandry is with the approach that our legislators take on pitting public and private schools against each other when what we should be doing is working cooperatively to build a better, stronger community of learners that will lead us into a successful future for all.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 07 Jul 10
       
      How can we participate better in this dialogue? How do we participate now? What do we envision our participation being, lets say in the reauthorization of NCLB?
    • Jennifer Volpato
      Jennifer Volpato on 07 Jul 10
       
      I believe that the creation of teams of teachers, principals, researchers, students, and parents to review, give feedback, and design changes to NCLB would serve as a more successful approach to problem solving the current educational "crisis". When I have a problem to solve I take the grass roots approach, go to the source, research and reflect on the information, I never pretend to know it all. First hand accounts and dialogue are crucial in developing productive change.
  • creating a complete picture of our students and our schools with standardized testing being one aspect, but no the only measurement tool.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 07 Jul 10
       
      Great vision!
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  • why are we as a nation submitting the results of one method of testing
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 07 Jul 10
       
      This is an important point you make. It relates to one of our guiding quesitons: What are the impacts of standardized testing? My hunch is more negative than positive.
  • Interesting NPR program on the effects on high NCLB
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 07 Jul 10
       
      Not sure what you mean here? Can you link to the program?
    • Jennifer Volpato
      Jennifer Volpato on 07 Jul 10
       
      Oops, I added this quickly when I got here in the middle of a conversation with Jamie. I'll try the link again.
Randy Ziegenfuss

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assessment information_literacy literacy informationliteracy library tools technology information

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    "TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on sixth and ninth grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for library media specialists and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students."
Randy Ziegenfuss

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Framework for 21st Century Learning - 0 views

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21st century skills education learning standardized technology

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    21st century skills as outlined by The Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
Randy Ziegenfuss

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    This site contains a brief position statement from NCTE on the concept of 21st century education and literacies.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Undoing the Damage of High-Stakes Testing « Cooperative Catalyst - 0 views

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    The writer of this blog post argues that high-stakes testing is damaging our students' learning when they are drilled in taking tests rather than participating in opportunities to problem solve and critically think with their peers worldwide.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Digital Alternatives to Test Preparation - Jamie's Multimedia Essay - 0 views

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  • This is how I was taught and tested so this is how I teach and test
    • Kevin Bush
      Kevin Bush on 07 Jul 10
       
      How do we break this cycle? If this is true, then wouldn't it be reasonable to say that the future teachers in our classes would continue this, I mean besides those of us in this class, aren't we just preparing a new wave of teachers to continue following our bad models.
    • Jennifer Volpato
      Jennifer Volpato on 07 Jul 10
       
      Good point. When our only references are those based in our own learning experiences how do we get away from that? I guess constant reflection on our own process and close attention to our students.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 07 Jul 10
       
      Yes, Jen. I think reflection is the key. And hopefully that is what we are doing here. Through reflection, you'll be able to gather some new knowledge to move your own classroom toward better alternatives to test preparation.
  • How might we meet the needs of the system and the needs of the learners
    • Kevin Bush
      Kevin Bush on 07 Jul 10
       
      Great picture. The first thing that came to my mind however was what does this look like at a high school setting where students are competitive or on the other extreme, just going through the motions. How do we bring the enjoyment of learning to the high schools and continue a model of creativity?
  • Through collaboration, creativity, exploration, and sharing students can be assessed in a real world way.
    • Kevin Bush
      Kevin Bush on 07 Jul 10
       
      I think you are right, this is a good summation of your ideas, we need to continue rewarding those who go outside the box of the traditional testing model and recognize the possibilities of engaging students at a new level and making assessment just a brief stop and a progression in a longer journey of learning the 'big ideas'.
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 07 Jul 10
       
      Agreed, Jamie. Now your challenge is to take this lofty goal and figure out how to actually achieve it in your classroom!
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  • In what ways do we assess learning?
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 07 Jul 10
       
      You mentioned "negative" modes of testing. If assessment is a valuable part of learning - I believe it is...valuable feedback - what are the postive ways we assess student learning?
  • and skills
    • Randy Ziegenfuss
      Randy Ziegenfuss on 07 Jul 10
       
      But do those standardized tests really reflect the skills students are learning? Generally, I would say no.
Kevin Bush

Digital Alternatives to Test Preparation - Bridget's Multimedia Essay - 0 views

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  • Once they're made, tests are easy to give and easy to score.
    • Kevin Bush
      Kevin Bush on 07 Jul 10
       
      They are also cut and dry, right or wrong, no in between. The assessments I think we will be looking at examine not only what students know but what they don't and see learning as a progression.
  • same test they've been giving for years
    • Kevin Bush
      Kevin Bush on 07 Jul 10
       
      Like the teacher I talked about who went into the filing cabinet and pulled out the same numbered tests every year without changing the ways because 'it worked in the past.'
  • leadership, open-mindedness, and motivation
    • Kevin Bush
      Kevin Bush on 07 Jul 10
       
      This is the greatest challenge, administrators understanding the disconnect between what is going on in the class and what alternatives are out there. How to demonstrate how more effective teaching and alternative assessments can best prepare students for these standardized tests.
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