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The Standard is Authenticity

Over at Twitter recently, @mctownsley pointed toward an earlierĀ 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 [...]