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C CC

One in four boys fails writing test for seven-year-old pupils - Education News, Educati... - 0 views

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  • Girls swept the board in national curriculum tests for seven-year-olds, beating boys in every paper – reading, writing, speaking and listening, maths and science. The biggest gap was in writing, where one in four boys failed to reach the standard expected, compared with just 13 per cent of girls.
    • C CC
      C CC on 27 Aug 09
       
      I find it a very sad state of affairs in the UK that this article constitutes a story. It has been widely acknowledged amongst child developmentalists that there is going to be a gulf between the sexes at such an age due to the internal developments taking place. Although testing is 'voluntary' in the UK, it is clearly still widespread to accountability purposes. We are talking about 7-year-olds here. What is disappointing also, is the fact further on in the article that a politician sees this as capital to attack the government, rather than the whole 'testing' regime for 7 year olds.
elizabeth helfant

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  • Test Post (0) test code (0) My World History Project (0)
    • elizabeth helfant
      elizabeth helfant on 04 Aug 09
       
      another test
  • I am the Upper School Coordinator of Instructional Technology.
  • m the Upper School Coordinator of Instructional Technology.
Joshua Williams

What We Learn From School Tests - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • The relentless gaze on high-stakes tests and the culture spawned by No Child Left Behind is blinding us to the educational demands of the 21st century.
  • But first we need a national conversation on what the 21st century will require of our ever more diverse student population. There’s no doubt that an education that promotes life-long cognitive, behavioral and relational engagement with a complex and interconnected world is key. This means we’ll need intellectually curious and cognitively flexible workers comfortable with ambiguity, able to synthesize knowledge within and across disciplines and work collaboratively in diverse groups.
  • Moving forward, we need to go beyond the mastery of facts and rules. Instead, we should nurture interpersonal sensibilities in children and teenagers so that they learn to work in groups, within and across disciplines and cultures. In short, we need to educate, not test.
Steve Ransom

Mother hopes others will opt out of standardized testing - CNN.com - 3 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 22 Mar 11
     
    Parents opting out of yearly grueling 2 weeks of standardized testing.
John Marr

Multiple Intelligence paper test - 5 views

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  • John Marr on 04 Aug 11
     
    Scribd file of a two page multiple intelligence true/false test to determine your sensory preference. 
Kim Collazo

Using SMART Response with a paper test - 65 views

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smartresponse

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  • Kim Collazo on 16 Jul 11
     
    This is a video which shows you how to create a blank Response test so kids can use SMART Response to take a paper test so it will grade for you!
Susanna Livingston

GRE Test Practice Questions - Help your GRE Exam Score with free GRE Test Preparation - 44 views

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  • Susanna Livingston on 15 Jul 11
     
    Test prep site... Has PSAT practice..any exam you can think of!
Phillip Long

Stagnant Future, Stagnant Tests: Pointed Response to NY Times "Grading the Digital Scho... - 72 views

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anonymous

Online hearing test - Hear the World - 6 views

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online hearing test sensation perception psychology

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  • anonymous on 04 Oct 12
     
    Great for Psychology class discussing hearing test or for kids to do on their own.
Kathleen Mendez

How did your school do on the new SBAC test? | The CT Mirror - 11 views

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  • Kathleen Mendez on 25 Jan 16
     
    "How did your school do on the new SBAC test?"
Martin Leicht

A Breakthrough for A.I. Technology: Passing an 8th-Grade Science Test - The New York Times - 13 views

www.nytimes.com/...igence-aristo-passed-test.html

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  • But others, like this question from the same exam, required logic:
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 02 Feb 20
       
      Why do we still test rote memory? Why do not more tests in involve logical choices?
  • A science test isn’t something that can be mastered just by learning rules. It requires making connections using logic
  • “We can’t compare this technology to real human students and their ability to reason,”
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 02 Feb 20
       
      And yet, AI continues to improve/make logical connections. What are we doing to help keep students improving?
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  • The new research could lead to systems that can carry on a decent conversation.
  • the world’s leading A.I. labs have built elaborate neural networks that can learn the vagaries of language by analyzing articles and books written by humans.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 02 Feb 20
       
      This was an improvement. Before, they showed AI thousands upon thousands of photos of dogs. In the end, AI can recognise a dog.
  • Bert learned how to guess the missing word in a sentence.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 02 Feb 20
       
      Bert (from Google) learned to fill in these missing words by analysing thousands of pages of wikipedia and online books. Bert soaked up so much with so little effort. Never send a Human to do a robots job.
John Killeen

The Testing Effect | Revunote - 19 views

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memeory testing Chapter 5 Miller multiple choice frequency true-false

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  • John Killeen on 11 Aug 17
     
    Act of answering test questions improves likelihood of remembering material later
Sam Boswell

Deborah Meier on Standardized Testing | Diane Ravitch's blog - 39 views

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Summative vs. formative assessment

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  • Sam Boswell on 04 Mar 13
     
    Misuse of standardised testing
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: Problem-Attic - An Easy Way to Create Review Tests - 0 views

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  • Michael Sheehan on 13 Feb 13
     
    Easily create review tests or flashcards from NYS Regents exams or other state assessments. Free to join.
Marc Patton

FCAT Reading Grade 4 Practice - 1 views

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Language_Arts Teaching_Ideas Teacher_Resources

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  • Marc Patton on 10 Oct 12
     
    This web site is designed to help teachers and their students prepare for the Fourth Grade Reading Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). It includes resources for teachers as well as practice activities and tests for students. Many of the materials are also available in a print-friendly format.
Martin Burrett

Improving Knowledge Retrieval by @guruteaching - 18 views

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knowledge memory

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  • Martin Burrett on 14 Nov 16
     
    "Watching my students' faces as I explain to them that they will be sitting a test in a fortnight is something to behold.  I often witness a whole range of emotions, from annoyance, to despair, to completely blank and unreadable expressions. It's never a good look! So, a priority I've been working on for the past few months is improving knowledge retrieval, so that when a test is announced, my students can deal with it in a much more positive way."
Martin Burrett

Boarding card and landing card by @PrimaryLessons - 29 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 13 Nov 16
     
    "This idea has been developed from an idea in Talk-Less Teaching by Isabella Wallace and Leah Kirkman. I used it in the context of a SPAG lesson where Y6 pupils were answering test questions in preparation for the SATs test."
Maureen Greenbaum

Daniel Pinkwater on Pineapple Exam: 'Nonsense on Top of Nonsense' - Metropolis - WSJ - 18 views

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  • An agent I had years ago said just because it’s nonprofit and educational, don’t let them not pay you, because they’re making money.
    • Jolynn Asato
      Jolynn Asato on 22 Apr 12
       
      Wow. What is done in the name of "educational". So much exploitation by an industry that makes much money off the misery of high stakes accountability!
  • They basically turned it into test-ese.
  • and I must interject that I admire the job they did, because it makes even less sense than mine
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  • We don’t count that against the kid’s grade, we put that there as a sort of brain teaser to show them that not everything is quantifiable, and to let them have a little fun,” then I’ll retract all my aspersions about how they’re money-grubbing b——- and overcharge for this stuff and sell it over and over again and underpay the poor authors they buy it off of
  • those stupid tests — and you can quote me, stupid tests
  • maybe I misjudged them. Maybe somebody working on the test was slowly going crazy, and wanted to put in something amusing for him or herself, and also for the kids.
  • I’m on this earth to put up a feeble fight against the horrible tendency people have to think that there’s a formula. “If I do the following things, I’ll get elected president.” No you won’t. “If I do the following things, my work of art will be good.” Not necessarily. “If I follow this recipe, the dish will come out very delicious.” Maybe. Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.
  • Maureen Greenbaum on 22 Apr 12
     
    "Daniel Pinkwater on Pineapple Exam: 'Nonsense on Top of Nonsense'"
Steve Ransom

Stephen Krashen Pulls the Rug Out From Under the Standards Movement - Living in Dialogu... - 3 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 05 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • ur average scores are respectable but unspectacular because, as Farhi notes, we have such a high percentage of children living in poverty, the highest of all industrialized countries. Only four percent of children in high-scoring Finland, for example, live in poverty. Our rate of poverty is over 21%.
  • It means that the "problem" of American education is not ineffective teaching, not teachers' unions, not lack of national standards and tests, and not schools of education: It is poverty.
  • Steve Ransom on 05 Apr 12
     
    "It means that the "problem" of American education is not ineffective teaching, not teachers' unions, not lack of national standards and tests, and not schools of education: It is poverty." Sarah's comment is heartbreaking
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