sample items being drafted for those exams offer early ideas of what lies ahead.
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Consortia Provide Preview of Common Assessments - 4 views
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“What we are starting to see here are tests that really get at a deeper understanding on the part of students, not just superficial knowledge,” said Robert L. Linn, an assessment expert and professor emeritus of education at the University of Colorado at Boulder who reviewed a sampling of the consortia’s materials.
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Mr. Linn predicted that even with sample items to guide them, vendors will find it tough to develop tasks and questions that fully reflect the aims of the two state groups
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Education Week: Teacher Collaboration: The Essential Common-Core Ingredient - 1 views
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Gone are the days when states and districts could lower expectations, hide poor results, or create confusion about what students are capable of achieving
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The new standards emphasize teaching fewer topics, but in greater depth, and focusing more on hands-on learning and dynamic student projects than traditional lectures.
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teachers must also encourage innovative assignments that require students to show their understanding, use their knowledge and skills to solve problems, create written and multimedia presentations, and complete real-world tasks.
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choose books about those real-world topics as part of a unit on truth. Students are dissecting the sources, statistics, and anecdotes the authors use to make their arguments
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Notice how the emphasis is on "dissecting" the information in the text, not necessarily on the text itself as a "good example" of informational text. It's more about getting students to be critical consumers of the "truthfulness" of the author's message based on quality resources to back up the author's viewpoint. Excellent point about what "close reading of the text really is!"
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Often, our nod to nonfiction is the autobiography or true-story version of something,"
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