Assessment reform is crucial to education reform. Junot Diaz spoke at NCTE last night about the work we have to do to move away from the “journey of approval” (make the grade or face punishment) to the “journey of discovery,” wherein meaningful reading, learning, and heuristic mistake-making occur. Until an American administration takes [...]
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Posted 20 November 2009
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Also tagged: Education reform, Edumacation, Florida, Junot Diaz, Matt Townsley, MeTa Musings, NBCT, NCTE, Polk County, Rick Stiggins, Rick Wormeli, Robert Marzano, SBAR, Standards, Standards-based, Timely feedback, W. James Popham
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 [...]
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Posted 09 August 2009
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Also tagged: Assessment, Authentic learning, Education reform, Edumacation, Grade book, Grading, Matt Townsley, PLC, PLN, Report card, Reporting, SBAR, Standards-based
