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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
Maureen Greenbaum

How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education - T... - 15 views

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based education competency skill testing

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  • a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education” that was inspired by a 2012 state law.
  • law requires that by 2021, students graduating from Maine high schools must show they have mastered specific skills to earn a high school diploma.
  • CompetencyWorks, a national organization t
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  • By 2021, schools must offer diplomas based students reaching proficiency in the four core academic subject areas: English, math, science and social studies. By 2025, four additional subject areas will be included: a second language, the arts, health and physical education.
  • proficiency-based idea has also created headaches at some schools for teachers trying to monitor students’ individual progress.
  • Students have more flexibility to learn at their own pace and teachers get time to provide extra help for students who need it
  • It wasn’t for lack of trying,” Bowen said. “It was a systems design problem.”
  • offer students clarity about what they have to learn and how they are expected to demonstrate they’ve learned it.
  • at schools that have embraced the new system, teachers say they are finding that struggling students are seeing the biggest gains because teachers are given more time to re-teach skills and students better understand the parameters for earning a diploma.
  • Deciding to believe that all students are capable of learning all of the standards, she said, “was scary.”
  • Multiple-choice questions have virtually disappeared. Homework is checked, but not graded.
  • students get less than a proficient score, they must go back and study the skill they missed. They are then given a chance to retake the relevant portions of the test until they earn a satisfactory score.
  • We inherited a structure for schooling that was based on time and on philosophical beliefs that learning would be distributed across a bell curve,
  • get crystal clear about what we want students to know and be able to do and then how to measure it.”
Glenn Hervieux

What's At Risk When Schools Focus Too Much on Student Data? | MindShift | KQED News - 64 views

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data testing education

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  • Glenn Hervieux on 28 Aug 16
     
    Some interesting material in this article to consider in regards to testing and it's effects on students, teachers, and the education system itself.
joel008

Criterion-referenced assessment - 36 views

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learning online education assessment testing high stakes normative criterion no child left behind

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  • joel008 on 25 Oct 15
     
    Criterion & norm-reference testing
Yozo Horiuchi

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Standardized Testing (HBO) - 44 views

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news testing standardized testing

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  • Yozo Horiuchi on 05 May 15
     
    This is probably not the forum for this video but I love that John Oliver took a stand and explained the ridiculous issues the United States education system faces with standardized tests.
Matt Renwick

Principal: What I've learned about annual standardized testing - The Washington Post - 36 views

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  • the Department of Education should not be “a national school board.
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 02 Feb 15
       
      Quote from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island)
  • to think that first-graders fluently reading would “cure poverty” is not only indefensible, it trivializes the great economic inequities that are the root cause of our nation’s greatest challenge.
  • I have witnessed schools move from progressive practices such as inclusion, to the grouping of special education students with ELLs and other struggling learners into “double period” classes where they are drilled to pass the test.
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  • There is now minimal support from the research community for the use of annual test scores in teacher evaluations, often referred to as VAM.
  • When teachers begin losing their jobs based on test scores, how easy will it be to attract excellent teachers to schools with high degrees of student mobility and/or truancy? Who will want to teach English language learners with interrupted education, or students with emotional disabilities that make their performance on tests unpredictable?
Sharin Tebo

Teaching Metacognition - 78 views

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  • Step 1: Teach students that the ability to learn is not a fixed quantity The key to a student's ability to become a self-regulated (i.e., metacognitive) learner is understanding that one's ability to learn is a skill that develops over time rather than a fixed trait, inherited at birth.
    • Sharin Tebo
      Sharin Tebo on 28 Jul 14
       
      Carol Dweck's book on having a Growth Mindset comes to mind here...
  • Step 2: Teach students how to set goals and plan to meet them
  • Step 3: Give students opportunities to practice self-monitoring and adapting Accurate self-monitoring is quite difficult.
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  • In particular, students are encouraged to think about the key points of the lecture as they listen and take notes. At the end of the lecture, students write what they think the three most important ideas of the lecture were on an index card.
  • Example: lecture wrappers
  • Teaching Self-Monitoring Strategies Monitoring and adapting strategies can be taught as learning habits. A wrapper is one tool for teaching self-monitoring behavior. A wrapper is an activity that surrounds an existing assignment or activity and encourages metacognition. For example, wrappers can be used with lectures, homework assignments, or exams. Wrappers require just a few extra minutes of time, but can have a big impact.
  • Example: homework wrappers Before beginning a homework assignment, students answer a brief set of self-assessment questions focusing on skills they should be monitoring. Students complete the homework as usual, and then answer a follow-up set of self-assessment questions.
  • Example: exam wrappers When graded exams are returned (as soon as possible after the exam was given), students complete an exam reflection sheet. They describe their study strategies, analyze the mistakes they made, and plan their study strategies for the next exam.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Jul 14
     
    "Metacognition is a critically important, yet often overlooked component of learning. Effective learning involves planning and goal-setting, monitoring one's progress, and adapting as needed. All of these activities are metacognitive in nature. By teaching students these skills - all of which can be learned - we can improve student learning. There are three critical steps to teaching metacognition:"
  • traceynangle on 27 Jul 14
     
    Really useful reminder of how we need to address very basic ideas about how to absorb new information and ask students to self-monitor and push themselves. I appreciated the information and plan to incorporate the wrappers!
Jeff Bernstein

Labor and "Ed Deform" : John C. Antush | Monthly Review - 21 views

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education reform testing teacher evaluations APPR nyc commentary

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  • Jeff Bernstein on 16 Jul 14
     
    "The biggest threat to education today is the corporate education reform movement-what many of us call "Ed Deform." It is also the biggest threat to teachers' working conditions."
Amy Roediger

Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Practice Test - 91 views

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practice assessment testing CCSS common core standards resources

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  • Amy Roediger on 01 Sep 13
     
    Here are some practice sample items that are worth checking out to prepare students for the next generation assessments for the Common Core.
Roland Gesthuizen

A warning to college profs from a high school teacher - 92 views

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teachertraining education testing NCLB

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Jul 13
     
    "You are a college professor. I have just retired as a high school teacher. I have some bad news for you. In case you do not already see what is happening, I want to warn you of what to expect from the students who will be arriving in your classroom, even if you teach in a highly selective institution."
Steve Ransom

I need to set the record straight | Opine I will - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 29 Apr 13
     
    Beware. Teachers are given less and less benefit of the doubt and increasingly treated with little dignity and respect.
mollyfanning

LA Woman: Student Inspiration - 1 views

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standardized testing

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  • mollyfanning on 28 Apr 13
     
    In these last days of April, I wanted to acknowledge the yin and yang that this month represents for my discipline. April is National Poetry Month, but it is also the time of year when students in grades 3-8 take their ELA and math New York State exams. The irony of this is not lost on us English teachers.
anonymous

Crash Test | Texas Monthly - 24 views

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standardized testing accountability

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      anonymous on 24 Apr 13
       
      This same accountability "fear factor" has been applied nationwide, too.
  • STAAR replaced the four tests previously required for graduation with fifteen—more than any other state. Lawmakers also mandated that the new tests, known as end-of-course exams, would count for 15 percent of a student’s grade in each subject area
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 24 Apr 13
       
      Sounds like the middle school testing requirements here in TN.
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  • “cult of educational testing” and argued that the accountability system was doing more harm than good
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 24 Apr 13
       
      What wonderful wording!
  • Longtime observers of education policy are openly speculating that we are seeing the beginning of the end of the accountability movement, right here in the state where it was born.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 24 Apr 13
       
      Isn't that amazing?!  How long will this concept take to catch on and make it nationwide?
  • Of course, the stakes are high not just for kids but for adults too. Teachers whose students fail to improve—or don’t improve sufficiently—can find themselves out of a job. Students at poor-performing schools can transfer to better schools in their district—and take their state funding with them.
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      anonymous on 24 Apr 13
       
      This is happening locally - I have witnessed such!
  • Shortly before he resigned as education commissioner, Robert Scott warned that assessment and accountability had grown into something akin to a “military-industrial complex,” a kind of public policy juggernaut with its own internal momentum.
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