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anonymous

Slavery Footprint - 5 views

slaveryfootprint.org

social_studies economy calculator

shared by anonymous on 17 May 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 17 May 12
     
    Use the Slavery Footprint survey to see how many slaves "work for you". Results are broken down by location of foced servitude, and the things that had the most effect on your score.
Marc Patton

Dr. Janet Allen's Plugged-in | Literacy curriculum for secondary students - 1 views

www.pluggedintoreading.com

Teacher_Resources Teaching_Ideas Language_Arts RTI

shared by Marc Patton on 26 Jun 12 - Cached
  • Marc Patton on 26 Jun 12
     
    Curriculum proven to boost test scores and student engagement includes many new titles and more teacher support materials RB Education, a division of Recorded Books and leading publisher of K-12...
Martin Burrett

Axon - 55 views

axon.wellcomeapps.com

game brain science

shared by Martin Burrett on 04 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 04 Sep 12
     
    A logic science game designed to teach about neutrons and the brain. Connect the neutrons to score points a micrometre at a time. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Mark Gleeson

Learning In Burlington: Why School? Will Richardson Leads Us Towards Answers To This Critical Question - 0 views

www.patrickmlarkin.com/...-will-richardson-leads-us.html

learning

shared by Mark Gleeson on 18 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Mark Gleeson on 18 Sep 12
     
    Will presents straightforward questions that we can present to parents and other stakeholders to help us make this much needed shift.  We need to help parents and community members engage in a narrative that will help them see clearly that the test scores that our country's education reform movement are focused upon "tell us little if anything about our children's chances for future success."
Martin Burrett

Traveler IQ Challenge - 102 views

www.travelpod.com/...game1

Geography maps map city

shared by Martin Burrett on 28 Nov 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 28 Nov 11
     
    A fun game where players must click on a city or place on a world map to score points. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
Martin Burrett

Matching Multiplication - 82 views

sheppardsoftware.com/...matching_multiplication.swf

multiplication flash maths

shared by Martin Burrett on 22 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 22 Feb 12
     
    A multiplication game where players must match the question and answer cards to score points. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Roland Gesthuizen

City Teacher Data Reports Are Released - SchoolBook - 36 views

www.nytimes.com/...cher-data-reports-are-released

NYTimes performance assessment teacher leaguetable

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 25 Feb 12 - No Cached
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  • The rankings stem from a desire by policy makers to find an objective way to distinguish between effective and ineffective teachers, untainted by the subjective judgment of individual evaluators, like school principals.
  • Critics also say there are aspects of a child’s life — or distractions on test day — that the numbers cannot capture: supportive parents, a talented principal, the help of a tutor, allergies or a relentlessly barking dog outside the classroom.
  • there are schools where students are taught by multiple teachers, making it difficult to figure out the weight of their individual contributions
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  • The union has warned that the result will be sweeping, with good teachers steering clear of grades that have standardized tests, parents’ attempts to switch their children to other classrooms, low morale among teachers and worse.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 25 Feb 12
     
    After a long legal battle and amid much anguish by teachers and other educators, the New York City Education Department released individual performance rankings of 18,000 public school teachers on Friday, while admonishing the news media not to use the scores to label or pillory teachers.
smilex3md

Basic item analysis for multiple-choice tests. Kehoe, Jerard - 1 views

pareonline.net/getvn.asp

assessment socy201 multiple choice evaluation item-analysis psychometric

shared by smilex3md on 19 Aug 13 - Cached
  • smilex3md on 19 Aug 13
     
    Basic Item Analysis for Multiple-Choice Tests. Jerard Kehoe, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University This article offers some suggestions for the improvement of multiple-choice tests using "item analysis" statistics. These statistics are typically provided by a measurement services, where tests are machine-scored, as well as by testing software packages. The basic idea that we can capitalize on is that the statistical behavior of "bad" items is fundamentally different from that of "good" items. Of course, the items have to be administered to students in order to obtain the needed statistics. This fact underscores our point of view that tests can be improved by maintaining and developing a pool of "good" items from which future tests will be drawn in part or in whole. This is particularly true for instructors who teach the same course more than once.
Roland Gesthuizen

generatedata.com - 71 views

www.generatedata.com/#generator

random generator online tool data ITA

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 25 Nov 12 - Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 25 Nov 12
     
    "Ever needed custom formatted sample / test data, like, bad? Well, that's the idea of the Data Generator. It's a free, open source script written in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL that lets you quickly generate large volumes of custom data in a variety of formats for use in testing software, populating databases, and scoring with girls."
Paul Bogush

Noteflight - paulbogush's Home - 27 views

www.noteflight.com/...member_home

noteflight music

shared by Paul Bogush on 15 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Paul Bogush on 15 Jun 10
     
    Create music scores online
Christian Howd

How to Make American Teens Smarter - The Daily Beast - 51 views

www.thedailybeast.com/...what-teens-are-really-reading

reading reading strategies language arts

shared by Christian Howd on 21 Jul 10 - Cached
  • "People don't really understand the nature of reading. They feel that reading is a skill, that it's transferable, so once you're a good reader, you can read anything that's put in front of you," says Daniel Willingham, a University of Virginia cognitive psychologist who focuses on K-12 education. "But that's only true for decoding—what you learn until grade three or four. After that, when you see good readers versus poor readers, what you're looking at is mostly differences in the knowledge that kids bring to the reading. It's easy to read something when you already know something about the topic. And if you don't know about the topic, it's utterly opaque to you."
  • That's why children should read newspapers and magazines, texts about nature and technology, and biographies—genres that increase real-world knowledge. This is especially important for poor children, who may not be exposed to as much "background" information at home: the random vocabulary, facts, and associations that make it easier to do well on tests like the NAEP and SAT, and to succeed in the workplace.
  • Christian Howd on 21 Jul 10
     
    Americans may be reading more words today than ever before, but the content is less challenging. Dana Goldstein on kids' dismal reading scores-and a movement to get them to put down Twilight and pick up nonfiction.
  • Joyce Uglow on 23 Jul 10
     
    You're absolutely right! Our students need to be provided opportunities to read a variety of text!
LaToya Morris

Really NOT that beneficial - 11 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...070811151449.htm

year-round education students school

shared by LaToya Morris on 30 Sep 10 - Cached
  • LaToya Morris on 30 Sep 10
     
    An article posted in Science Daily a few years ago the talks about how studies have shown the year-round students do not learn more than traditional school students. This information comes from test scores in math and science observed and compared over a year by a sociologist at the Ohio State University. They also explain that year-round school does not mean the students are in school more days.
Jason Schmidt

School Would Be Great If It Weren't for the Damn Kids - 95 views

www.alfiekohn.org/...damnkids.htm

school alfie kohn students edreform education interest current commentary

shared by Jason Schmidt on 17 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • It simply doesn’t make sense to try to “purge ‘ineffective’ teachers and principals.”  His listener, almost giddy with gratitude now, prepares to chime in, as Samuelson, without pausing, delivers the punch line:  That’s right, it’s time to stop blaming teachers and start . . . blaming students!
  • His focus is not on students’ achievements (the intellectual accomplishments of individual kids) but only on “student achievement” (the aggregate results of standardized tests)
  • As I’ve noted elsewhere, we have reason to worry when schooling is discussed primarily in the context of “global competitiveness” rather than in terms of what children need or what contributes to a democratic culture
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  • Upon hearing someone castigate students for being insufficiently motivated, a noneconomist might be inclined to ask two questions.  The first is:  “Motivated to do what, exactly”?  Anything they’re told, no matter how unengaging, inappropriate, or, well, demotivating? 
  • Whenever I see students made to cram facts into their short-term memories for a test, practice a series of decontextualized skills on yet another worksheet, listen passively to a lecture, or inch their way through the insipid prose of a corporate-produced textbook, I find myself thinking of a comment made by Frederick Herzberg, a critic of traditional workplace management:  “Idleness, indifference, and irresponsibility,” he said, “are healthy responses to absurd work.”
  • The more you reward people for doing something, or for doing it well, the less interest they typically come to have in whatever they had to do to get the reward. 
  • People who blame students for not being “motivated” tend to think educational success mean little more than higher scores on bad tests and they’re apt to see education itself as a means to making sure our corporations will beat their corporations.  The sort of schooling that results is the type almost guaranteed to . . . kill students’ motivation.
  • one thing that’s happened is a concatenation of rewards and punishments, including grades, which teach students that learning is just a means to an end.
  • Another thing that’s happened is teaching that’s meant primarily to raise test scores.
  • inner-city kids get the worst of the sort of schooling that’s not about exploring and discovering and questioning but only about working hard (often at rote tasks) and being nice (read: obedient).
  • “Motivation is weak because more students…don't like school, don't work hard and don't do well.”  But why don’t they like school (which is the key to understanding why, assuming his premise is correct, they don’t succeed)?  What has happened to their desire to figure out how things work, the hunger to make sense of things, with which all children start out? 
  • if you want to see (intrinsically) motivated kids, you need to visit classrooms or schools that take a nontraditional approach to education, places where students are more likely to be absorbed and frequently delighted, where what they’re doing is not merely “rigorous” (a word often applied to very difficult busywork) but meaningful.
  • Jason Schmidt on 17 Nov 10
     
    Alfie Kohn's commentary on an article written by Robert J. Samuelson. Samuelson argues in his article that the problem with education reform is not the usual suspects like ineffective teachers, but kids who are lazy and unmotivated. Interesting read with thoughtful information about student motivation.
Chai Reddy

Teacher Evaluations May Get a Video Assist - NYTimes.com - 26 views

www.nytimes.com/...04teacher.html

nytimes.com education teaching pedagogy

shared by Chai Reddy on 05 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Mr. Gates is tracking the research closely. The use of digital video in particular has caught his attention. In an interview, he cited its potential for evaluating teachers and for helping them learn from talented colleagues.
  • The meticulous scoring of videotaped lessons for this project is unfolding on a scale never undertaken in educational research, said Catherine A. McClellan, a director for the Educational Testing Service who is overseeing the process. By next June, researchers will have about 24,000 videotaped lessons. Because some must be scored using more than one protocol, the research will eventually involve reviewing some 64,000 hours of classroom video
Peter Beens

Nurture Shock : A 5 Minute Intelligence Test for Kids - 0 views

blog.newsweek.com/...ntelligence-test-for-kids.aspx

Education testing intelligence 5minutes

shared by Peter Beens on 01 Sep 09 - Cached
  • But the two tasks I’ve described are a real test for children, developed in Switzerland. They are phenomenally accurate at predicting full-scale intelligence scores. On 5 and 6 year-old kids, this simple test is virtually synonymous with a 90-minute intelligence test of their full cognitive capacities; the two tests have a 99% correlation. It turns out that kindergartners who are really good at sorting line length and relative weight are the exact same kids who score high on tests of conceptual reasoning, memory, and attention.
Steve Ransom

Bridging Differences: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics - 1 views

blogs.edweek.org/..._damn_lies_and_statistics.html

testing NCLB assessment ny

shared by Steve Ransom on 15 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 15 Jun 09
     
    As it happened, New York state just released the results of its annual tests of English language arts and mathematics, and the scores soared across the state to an extent that was literally unbelievable.
Sandy Munnell

The British Psychological Society - 13 views

bpsoc.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/...art00009

digital natives digital_natives texting textism

shared by Sandy Munnell on 04 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Sandy Munnell on 04 Dec 09
     
    paper and connection to text messaging and literacy: the more textism a child uses, the higher their scores on vocabulary and reading - haven't read the whole paper - one has to pay for it - but if there is merit here this presents a new dynamic educators haven't thought of
Deb White Groebner

For the Love of Learning: Pink, Godin, Kohn and asymptotes - 56 views

www.joebower.org/...godin-kohn-and-asymptotes.html

learning intrinsic_motivation education

shared by Deb White Groebner on 06 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • Deb White Groebner on 06 Mar 10
     
    Value of reaching for unattainable "mastery" vs. dead-end scores: Fueling meaningful learning over fabricated performance.
Jason Schmidt

The Associated Press: Schools urge parents not to take kids to work - 11 views

www.google.com/...230Bxn6-Upff18dn_BUJwD9F88UHO0

shared by Jason Schmidt on 22 Apr 10 - Cached
  • At schools where standardized tests aren't being given that day, the exams may be looming. Student test scores have become increasingly important to public schools since the 2002 No Child Left Behind law was enacted, linking standardized test results to federal funding
    • Jason Schmidt
      Jason Schmidt on 22 Apr 10
       
      Is this statement really accurate? How much would/could kids' test scores be affected by missing one day of school?
  • But McKecuen, from the Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Foundation, said the event gives students a chance to see the connection between what they learn in school and the skills they will need as adults. He said it also can spark children's interest in careers they might not have considered or known about.
Jerry Christy

The Answer Sheet - Test scores can't prove whether teacher experience matters - 51 views

voices.washingtonpost.com/...scores-cant-prove-whether.html

shared by Jerry Christy on 11 Jan 11 - No Cached
    • Jerry Christy
      Jerry Christy on 11 Jan 11
       
      Wow - some questions for SERIOUS consideration/discussion.
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