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6 Steps to Help Students Find Order in Their Thinking

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.

And this is what we are talking about right? Thanks for sharing. I think I saw this a few months ago on Twitter.

Provides a tutorial for using the Prism collaborative interpretation web application. Prism was created by the Praxis team at the University of Virginia. To find out more, visit http://praxis.scholarslab.org/

he Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an ongoing triennial survey that assesses the extent to which 15-year-olds students near the end of compulsory education have acquired key knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in modern societies. The assessment does not just ascertain whether students can reproduce knowledge; it also examines how well students can extrapolate from what they have learned and apply that knowledge in unfamiliar settings, both in and outside of school. This approach reflects the fact that modern economies reward individuals not for what they know, but for what they can do with what they know. PISA offers insights for education policy and practice, and helps monitor trends in students' acquisition of knowledge and skills across countries and in different demographic subgroups within each country. The findings allow policy makers around the world to gauge the knowledge and skills of students in their

Using Kaizena

Analysis questions common assumption single-sex schools improve educational environment, achievement

Why Should Schools Care About John Hattie's Visible Learning?

What Are the 7 Mind Frames of Learning?

provides the public, policymakers, and the press with timely, academically sound reviews of selected think tank publications. Reviewers for the project apply academic peer review standards to reports from think tanks and write brief reviews for the project website. They are asked to examine the reports for the validity of assumptions, methodology, results, and strength of links between results and policy recommendations.

The Think Twice Think Tank Review Project provides the public, policymakers, and the press with timely, academically sound reviews of selected think tank publications.  Reviewers for the project apply academic peer review standards to reports from think tanks and write brief reviews for the project website. They are asked to examine the reports for the validity of assumptions, methodology, results, and strength of links between results and policy recommendations. The reviews, written in non-academic language, are intended to help policy makers, reporters, and others assess the merits of the reviewed reports.