As many of you know, the HOPE Foundation provides world class conferences for educators featuring national leaders in education. Recently, my former colleagues from my time as a Superintendent of Schools returned from an exciting time in Atlanta at the latest HOPE conference.
Here is what Wendy had to say:
I have been an educator for 16 years. [...]
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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
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 [...]
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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
Over at Leader Talk, there is a great discussion about high stakes testing. It is an open and passionate commentary on the many side effects of high profile standardized tests, many of which you may not have known even existed.
The beauty of blogs is that we can link to people with interesting view points without having [...]
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