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Alicia Koster

Let's Mend, Not End, Educational Testing - Education Week - 0 views

  • The Common Core State Standards and accompanying K-12 assessments have recently sparked a fierce national backlash against testing. Sound educational testing and assessment are integral to good teaching and learning in classrooms and necessary for evaluating school performance and assuring quality in education. Rather than throw the baby out with the bathwater, I propose a more considered, "mend, not end" approach to testing, assessment, and accountability in America's schools, with validity at the forefront of the conversation.
  • Mending begins with understanding that most commercial standardized tests are designed to serve particular purposes well, for particular populations, and can support only particular decisions at best. To uphold validity principles in practice, it is worthwhile to ask: Are we using the test for the originally intended purpose, or for another purpose that taxes the tool beyond its technical limits? Multi-purposing a test indiscriminately is not a good idea from a validity standpoint, despite its efficiency.
Lois Whipple

Testing Talk - 0 views

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    This site provides a space for you to share your observations of the new breed of standardized tests. What works? What doesn't? Whether your district is piloting PARCC, Smarter Balanced, or its own test, we want to pass the microphone to you, the people closest to the students being tested. The world needs to hear your stories, insights, and suggestions. Our goal is collective accountability and responsiveness through a national, online conversation.
Adriana Coppola

Testing Writing: What to Expect From the Next Generation Assessments WATcasts - 0 views

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    Testing Writing: What to Expect From the Next Generation Assessments
mccahillk

Teachers Learn to Judge Formative-Testing Tools - Education Week - 0 views

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

NEA Pushes Legislation to Reduce Testing - Politics K-12 - Education Week - 0 views

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    NEA Pushes Legislation to Reduce Testing
John Chandler

Field-Testing of Common-Core Exams Gets Off to Shaky Start at Md. High School - Curricu... - 0 views

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    At Thomas S. Wootton High School, teachers and administrators seem to be in agreement that field-testing for the common-core assessments is off to a bumpy start.
mccahillk

Educational Leadership:Strengthening Student Engagement:Engaging Students: What I Learn... - 0 views

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    Low grades on tests do not necessarily mean that students haven't studied. Some students may have been confused when the material was covered in class. Incomplete homework isn't always a sign that students don't care.
mccahillk

Educational Leadership:What Students Need to Learn:High-Stakes Testing Narrows the Curr... - 0 views

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    "Are science, social studies, the arts, and physical education really disappearing from elementary schools? Are critical thinking and deep reading of literature fading from the high school curriculum?"
mccahillk

Common Core's impact on teacher evaluations needs to be "addressed," Cuomo says - 0 views

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    "We have to deal with the issue of the effect of Common Core testing on teacher evaluations," Cuomo said at a news conference Tuesday.
mccahillk

Teaching Students to Embrace Mistakes | Edutopia - 0 views

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    You spend a huge part of your life grading tests, commenting on essays, and providing thoughtful feedback on homework assignments . . . only to have them wadded up and ignored. 
Gina Cinotti

PARCC Field Test Begins Today -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    How did it go for NJ students & PARCC?
Lois Whipple

College Board SAT Partnership | Khan Academy - 0 views

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    The partnership between Khan Academy and the College Board directly addresses one of the greatest inequities around college entrance exams: the culture of high-priced test preparation. Now, for the first time, all students have the opportunity to practice for the SAT with completely free, best-in-class materials
Barbara Powers

TIMSS and PIRLS Home - 1 views

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    Testing info from 1995 to present
Alan November

Active learning system made by Harvard leads to gains - eCampus News | eCampus News - 2 views

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    active-learning-harvard Some students at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill have been improving their test scores by more than 3 percentage points on average in the past year, and it's largely the result of a Harvard-created software that emphasizes active learning. The software, which is called Learning Catalytics, was implemented by Professor Kelly Hogan, the Director of Instructional Innovation for the College of Arts and Sciences and the Senior Lecturer in the Biology Department, in her non-majors Biology class in the fall of 2013."
Gina Cinotti

PARCC Resources - 0 views

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    PARCC test questions
Lois Whipple

MFEE Montclair Fund for Educational Excellence - 0 views

  • þffThe Montclair Fund for Educational Excellence (MFEE) is a non-profit local education fund founded in 1991 to generate private funding and community support for Montclair Public Schools and to enhance the educational experience of all of Montclair’s public school students.
    • Lois Whipple
       
      This is a test comment.
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    The Montclair Fund for Educational Excellence (MFEE) is a non-profit local education fund founded in 1991 to generate private funding and community support for Montclair Public Schools and to enhance the educational experience of all of Montclair's public school students
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    local educaiton fund for Montclair PublicSchools
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    local educaiton fund for Montclair PublicSchools
Gina Cinotti

TestingTalk.org Launches National Discussion About Common Core Tests - Living in Dialog... - 0 views

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    And we keep talking about it
Adriana Coppola

When Students "Fail" Should They be Allowed Do-overs? | Center for Teaching - 0 views

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    "How Re-Dos and Corrections Can Improve Your Teaching?" Parameters for how teachers could go about incorporating test corrections into their teaching.
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    When Students "Fail" Should They be Allowed Do-overs?
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    But they won't get a do-over in PARCC......
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