I am talking about data-driven instruction–a way of making teaching less subjective, more objective, less experience-based, more scientific.
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SEO is all about improving your website ranking in the search engine results and standing ahead of the competition. A good SEO strategy is required to make every further digital marketing campaigns successful. Today in the world occupied by the internet people's first experiences comes from the internet
Updating Data-Driven Instruction and the Practice of Teaching | Larry Cuban on School R... - 0 views
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Data-driven instruction, advocates say, is scientific and consistent with how successful businesses have used data for decades to increase their productivity.
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Of course, teachers had always assessed learning informally before state- and district-designed tests. Teachers accumulated information (oops! data) from pop quizzes, class discussions, observing students in pairs and small groups, and individual conferences.
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The fundamental premise of Moneyball is that the labor market of sports is inefficient, and that many teams systematically undervalue particular athletic skills that help them win. While these skills are often subtle – and the players that possess them tend to toil in obscurity - they can be identified using sophisticated statistical techniques, aka sabermetrics. Home runs are fun. On-base percentage is crucial.
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The wisdom of the moneyball strategy is no longer controversial. It’s why the A’s almost always outperform their payroll,
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However, the triumph of moneyball creates a paradox, since its success depends on the very market inefficiencies it exposes. The end result is a relentless search for new undervalued skills, those hidden talents that nobody else seems to appreciate. At least not yet.
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A surprising new argument against using kids' test scores to grade their teachers - The... - 1 views
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This dispute is just one example of the mathematical acrobatics required to isolate the effect of one teacher on their students' test scores, when so many other factors inside and outside the school's walls affect how students perform.
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When a teacher whose students do well on tests moves to a school where test scores were improving the previous year, and average scores continue improving after that teacher arrives, it is hard to know how much of that continued improvement is due to the new teacher and how much to other factors.
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For the past three years at HFS we have removed what traditionally has been known as homework and replaced it with a term by term 'Homework Challenge' and, even though we still face some of the same issues that we faced before and it is not a perfect model, it is an improvement on what we knew as homework.
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A few years ago, a student at my high school was having a terrible time passing one of the exams needed to earn a Regents Diploma.
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Mary has a learning disability that truly impacts her retention and analytical thinking.
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Because she was a special education student, at the time there was an easier exam available, the RCT, which she could take and then use to earn a local high school diploma instead of the Regents Diploma.
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Annie Emerson doesn't have to wonder about what it takes to help her kindergarten students learn how to write or do math. They've told her. Several times during the year, the Pinewoods Elementary School teacher asks her students two basic questions: what are ways that I teach you that you like or that are really working for you? What could be changed to help you learn even more? And it turns out even 5-year-olds have plenty to say.
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Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) is an independent, non-partisan research center based at Stanford University, the University of California - Berkeley, and the University of Southern California. PACE seeks to define and sustain a long-term strategy for comprehensive policy reform and continuous improvement in performance at all levels of California's education system, from early childhood to post-secondary education and training. PACE bridges the gap between research and policy, working with scholars from California's leading universities and with state and local policymakers to increase the impact of academic research on educational policy in California.
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THE latest results in the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, which compare how well 15-year-olds in 65 cities and countries can apply math, science and reading skills to solve real-world problems were released last week, and it wasn't pretty for the home team. Andreas Schleicher, who manages PISA, told the Department of Education: "Three years ago, I came here with a special report benchmarking the U.S. against some of the best performing and rapidly improving education systems. Most of them have pulled further ahead, whether it is Brazil that advanced from the bottom, Germany and Poland that moved from adequate to good, or Shanghai and Singapore that moved from good to great. The math results of top-performer Shanghai are now two-and-a-half school years ahead even of those in Massachusetts - itself a leader within the U.S."