Here is an interesting one for you.
A new study showing a link between one international test score and improvements to a nation’s GDP.
For the United States, the research suggests, modest gains in student achievement as measured by one international assessment could cumulatively boost the country’s gross domestic product by tens of trillions of dollars over [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Assessment/Data'
Study links economic improvements to test scores
January 25th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: accountability · international tests
Making the most of the tests that won’t go away!
December 8th, 2009 No Comments
ASCD has a nice little series going called “Multiple Measures.” Here is a quote from one article:
Asked to name the biggest obstacle their school is facing this year, 41 percent of responding educators in a recent informal ASCD SmartBrief poll picked “pressure on students and teachers to improve test results.” The general public has a [...]
Tags: national standards · national tests · standardized testing · testing
A real story about formative vs summative assessment
October 11th, 2009 2 Comments
The tension in the room was real. As a new professor to the university setting, my colleague had drug me along to a statewide task force meeting to discuss our statewide assessment problems. It was clear from the anxious faces around the room that people weren’t seeing eye-to-eye on how our statewide assessment system was [...]
Tags: accountability · assessment · national standards · school improvement · standardized testing · testing
More on formative vs. summative tests
October 10th, 2009 3 Comments
Matt asked a great question in the comments section. The essence of his question is..”isn’t how a teacher uses the test really what makes a test formative or summative?”
I would say it depends. To be truly formative, I believe an assessment has to be clearly aligned with good instruction and be the type of assessment [...]
Tags: assessment · teachers
James Popham on formative assessment
October 8th, 2009 5 Comments
I am blogging live from the Snow King Resort in Jackson, Wyoming at the Northern Rocky Mountain Education Research Association Conference.
Dr. James Popham was the keynote speaker. Here are a few key points for you to chew on.
Formative assessment cannot raise scores sufficiently on instructionally insensitive accountability tests such as those so widely used these [...]
Tags: assessment · formative assessment · testing
Study shows online education students do better than those in traditional face-to-face
August 20th, 2009 1 Comment
A recent meta-analysis of 99 different studies of online education, reports that students in online classes on average - score in the 59th percentile versus students in face-to-face courses that score in the 50th percentile.
Full report here.
If you prefer to read an article about the report, you can read that here.
While the study included some K-12 studies, [...]
Tags: online education
350 Million to help states create national standards
June 26th, 2009 4 Comments
The Washington Post reports that up to 350 million dollars may be available to help states work on national standards.
No doubt this will be followed by billions later for national testing, voluntary of course. Unless your state happens to be taking any federal money in which case…..
Tags: national standards · national testing
Study says two-thirds of charter schools are inferior
June 23rd, 2009 1 Comment
Stanfod University has conducted a study that says two out of three charter schools offer an inferior education to traditional public schools.
“Despite promising results in a number of states and within certain subgroups, the overall findings of this report indicate a disturbing — and far-reaching — subset of poorly performing charter schools,” the report says.
Here [...]
Tags: charter schools
