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Accounting for change

After looking back at previous posts about community engagement, curriculum, teaching, and grading and assessment, I want to publish a short to do list for myself this year as a way of holding myself accountable for continued change in my classroom practice. To complement the list, I’ll maintain a Google Doc score card shared with [...]

Posted 13 August 2010 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Standard is Authenticity

Over at Twitter recently, @mctownsley pointed toward an earlier post at Edumacation about the tension between standards-based assessment and traditional grading.

Assessments, like any kind of data-based research, can be used by many people in many different ways.

One teacher might pump her fist in the air after seeing that 95% of her students passed this year’s reading [...]

Posted 09 August 2009 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,