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Chris Harrow

High-stakes testing cheats children out of a quality education | Get Schooled - 0 views

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testing reform high stakes

shared by Chris Harrow on 15 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • “The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.”
  • “[W]hen test scores become the goal of the teaching process, they both lose their value as indicators of educational status and distort the educational process in undesirable ways.”
  • New requirements to assess teachers based on their students’ scores, in particular, virtually guarantee even more cheating will take place.
Chris Harrow

Study smart - 3 views

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study learning strategies

shared by Chris Harrow on 27 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • it may be that the study habits you've honed for a decade or two aren't serving you as well as you think they are.
  • while last-minute cramming may allow you to pass a test, you won't remember the material for long
  • research shows that mixing tasks and topics is a better bet.
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  • Despite strong evidence that interleaving works, it can be tough for teachers to work the mixed-up style of teaching into their lectures,
  • students might not enjoy taking a quiz at the end of every class or testing themselves every time they finish reading a chapter, but doing so would probably help them remember the material on the final exam — and even after the class ended.
  • even though most professors won't use daily quizzes in their courses, students can — and should — test themselves by asking themselves questions during study sessions.
  • "One of the most important transitions you make [at the beginning of graduate school] is realizing that you are really there to learn, not just get good grades,"
Chris Harrow

Dear Governor: Lobby to Save a Love of Reading - SchoolBook - 0 views

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reading testing elementary standardized

shared by Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • By asking young students to spend time taking tests like this we are doing them a double disservice: first, by inflicting on them such mediocre literature, and second, by training them to read not for pleasure but to discover a predetermined answer to a (let’s not mince words) stupid question.
  • Literary texts, whether by A.A. Milne or Leo Tolstoy, always admit multiple interpretations — and the greater the work, the more robust the tension among these readings, and the graver the loss in trying to reduce the work to a single idea.
  • Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12
     
    While focused on teaching reading to elementary students, the points raised here apply also to mathematics teaching ... reducing everything to a single way and a single answer is stifling, minimizing, and counterproductive.
Chris Harrow

My Favorite Test Question of All Time « Continuous Everywhere but Differentia... - 1 views

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limit calculus precalculus scratch-off

shared by Chris Harrow on 13 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Chris Harrow on 13 Nov 11
     
    Loving this question for all the math reasons, but I'm also pretty psyched about the idea of using scratch-off stickers!
Chris Harrow

Lost In Recursion | endless thinking about math and school - 0 views

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grades homework testing no grades

shared by Chris Harrow on 13 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • When we ask students to memorize and replicate for tests, this is surely the message.  Even worse, we equate the work with learning, when they are plainly distinct.
Chris Harrow

Daniel Willingham - Daniel Willingham: Science and Education Blog - 3 views

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study learning strategies

shared by Chris Harrow on 27 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Rereading is a terribly ineffective strategy. The best strategy--by far--is to self-test--which is the 9th most popular strategy out of 11 in this study. 
Chris Harrow

Emory scandal: Critics doubt college ratings  | ajc.com - 0 views

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college statistics Emory US News & World Report lies

shared by Chris Harrow on 26 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • “I’ve always questioned the rankings’ validity,” Taylor said. “It’s marketing, and when we talk about marketing, it’s selling.”
  • Many parents won’t even consider sending children to colleges that fail to earn high marks.
  • “There are lies, damned lies, statistics and rankings,” the website says. He defined this mania as “paying too much attention to the rankings and looking for status vs. making the right fit for a person.”
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  • The school reported SAT and ACT data for admitted students instead of enrolled students. That artificially inflated Emory’s test scores.
Chris Harrow

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/sed/staff/Sadler/articles/Sadler%20and%20Good%20EA.pdf - 2 views

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harvard peer review peer grading test corrections

shared by Chris Harrow on 21 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Chris Harrow on 21 Sep 12
     
    Admittedly, peer grading is not the same as grading by an expert who really knows the material. But it is better than nothing! In fact, done conscientiously, using a well designed rubric, it's a lot better than you might think, particularly when the results are compared with grading by an instructor who has a large number of assignments to grade in a limited amount of time! In some studies, students were observed to learn better when they were asked to actively assess their answers and those of their peers according to the instructor's rubric. In particular, students who self-graded using a rubric outperformed students who were graded by instructors.
Robert Ryshke

Teaching Elementary Students the Magic of Math | Edutopia - 0 views

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Math Professional Development

shared by Robert Ryshke on 24 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 24 Sep 11
     
    An Oregon elementary school has improved test scores by integrating math across all subject areas and focusing on teacher training.
Robert Ryshke

Dangerously Irrelevant Post on NYT article on technology - 0 views

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Technology Innovation

shared by Robert Ryshke on 18 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 18 Sep 11
     
    McLeod captures some of the important ideas that represent a counter argument to the NYT articles on technology and the future of schools.
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