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Personalized Assessment «Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech - 9 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 24 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 13 Jul 10
     
    Offers some good ideas on different approaches to assessment by giving students some choice in selecting assessment methods. Interesting thoughts here from Dean Shareski with great examples.
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Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques.
  • students who read a passage, then took a test asking them to recall what they had read, retained about 50 percent more of the information a week later than students who used two other methods.
  • What we recall becomes more recallable in the future. In a sense you are practicing what you are going to need to do later
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  • the struggle involved in recalling something helps reinforce it in our brains
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Jan 11
     
    Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques.
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Looking at Student Work - 0 views

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shared by Pam Thompson on 08 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Pam Thompson on 08 Aug 08
     
    Educators looking together at student work using structures and guidelines ("protocols") for reflecting on important questions about teaching and learning.">
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Ten Surprising Truths about Video Games and Learning | MindShift - 9 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 04 May 11 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 04 May 11
     
    An extended interview with James Gee. The video is from the PBS Documentary Digital Media - New Learners Of The 21st Century.
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