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In a recent blog post for Oxford University Press, Jaekung Lee reiterates what many educators have already concluded: the educational gains from high-stakes are marginal and have unintended negative consequences on the learning environment. Lee suggests effective instruction time and increased engagement might provide part of the solution."Let’s take a pop quiz on the ongoing debate [...]
Today we came across a great Website / Blog hosted by UK teacher Sam McKavanagh. The site is http://www.myteachinglife.co.uk and it offers articles and resources in a number of subject areas including technology for teachers, project based learning, and "other stuff." You can also follow Sam on Twitter, where he is building a nice following of like-minded [...]
All across the country, school districts are feeling the very real pain associated with the ever-changing world of high-stakes testing. In a recent article for U.S. News and World Report, writer Lauren Camera takes a comprehensive look at the Kingsport, Tennessee school system's mighty efforts to rise to the challenge of staying ahead of changes in [...]
The phrase teaching to the test makes most educators cringe. In a recent blog for Edutopia, Ben Johnson re-frames this idea. He challenges educators to use carefully crafted backwards planning and formative assessments to make the path to quality instructional goals clear and provide powerful feedback that deepens student knowledge and skills. "Many of us would [...]
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In a recent editorial for the Atlanta Constitution, education writer Maureen Downey takes a thoughtful look at the current teacher evaluation system in Georgia. Can teachers be fairly evaluated in a system based on a law that requires at least 50% of a teacher's evaluation score to be tied student scores [...]
In a recent EdWeek article, PARCC Scores Lower for Students Who Took Exams on Computers, Benjamin Harold shed light on an emerging issue in the high stakes testing world: new data shows a discrepancies between students taking the PARCC exam using the pencil and paper method and those taking the computer version of the exam. The [...]
In a recent EdSurge blog, Marry Jo Madda explores five significant issues around technology use in education, and asserts thoughtful solutions for each. "When I write articles for EdSurge, the intention is usually to write without opinion. But this piece isn’t going to be like that." "The way we handle technology in schools is widening the [...]