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Interesting article....for those of us who are passionate. We are not workaholics but rather, passion seekers.

Over the past two weeks, I've seen several exceptional posts and articles on teacher and student assessment, and thought I'd bring them all together in one post. I'll be sharing to which "Best" list I'll be adding each one, but you can also find all my lists on assessment at A Collection Of "The Best" Lists On Assessment.

ASCD article. Provides charts to define types and give examples. I might print this and give to principals to share with teachers

Article on how teachers can connect with students better in and outside of the classroom using Twitter

Excellent job tagging and adding comments about the resources you added to the group's Diigo library. They were tagged with SHU17 on time. Thanks. Looking forward to learning from you and your shared resources next week. You used specific tags that will help you create a data base of resources you can use to search with. Great.

assets of high quality schools

We have a first look at the results from the latest Speak Up survey, which polled hundreds of thousands of teachers, students, administrators, parents and community members about technology trends in education. Read more at http://thejournal.com/articles/2014/02/03/10-major-technology-trends-in-education.aspx#PtWIszql64vO1MiY.99

10 Major Technology Trends in Education

Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Research on College Undermatch "Access to the nation's most selective colleges remains starkly unequal, with students in the lowest income quartile constituting less than 4% of enrollment," say Michael Bastedo and Allyson Flaster (University of Michigan/Ann Arbor) in this article in Educational Researcher. "Students in the top SES quartile comprise 69% of enrollment at institutions that admit fewer than a third of their applicants…" One increasingly popular explanation for this enrollment gap is undermatching - academically able low-income students not applying to selective colleges for which they are qualified, settling instead for lower-tier institutions. Bastedo and Flaster are skeptical about this theory for three reasons First, they don't believe there is good evidence about the life benefits of attending different tiers of college, and most measures of college "quality" are quite unscientific. Life advantages might accrue at the extremes - going to a highly selective college versus a low-quality community college - but the evidence about the whole middle range is "quite muddy," say Bastedo and Flaster. Among the factors that need to be looked at more carefully are a college's graduation rate, students' debt burden, placement in graduate or professional schools, and post-graduate earnings. Second, the authors question whether it's possible for researchers to predict which low-income students will get into selective colleges to which they haven't yet applied. Competition for seats in these colleges has become much more intense in recent years, and extra-curricular activities, alumni parents, athletic prowess, and other intangibles play an increasingly important part. In many of these areas, higher-SES students have great advantages. Third, even if we look only at SAT scores and GPAs, high-achieving disadvantaged students are still not as competitive as the undermatching advocate

"College isn't for everyone. Let's stop pretending it is."

Very controversial right now. Excellent article. But the Common Core is College & Career Ready.......what does that say about this article?

Great article

Reading level articles of current events

Please check out Whipple Diigo demonstration.   Because I"m not sure I could do it again. Referred to serous data mining issues regarding Google's Apps for Education.  Captured video with Jing, posted both article and now this video to Diigo using Digolet and screencast.  Tweet to follow

GREAT ARTICLE.....share with all.

Connecting education and technology

Edudemic - connecting education & technology 

NAIS homepage

More tech infrastructure needed.

Many teachers who attended the training knew only about Smarter Balanced's year-end tests; the interim and formative tools came as a surprise.

Structures for Student Self-Assessment

So often we say "critical thinking" but we don't know what that "looks" like. This article is a good reference for teachers. Principals & administrators please share the points.....

Best practices of giving students feedback

Best practices of giving students feedback