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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'national standards'
Making the most of the tests that won’t go away!
December 8th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: national standards · national tests · standardized testing · testing
National Assessments on the Horizon
October 21st, 2009 3 Comments
A former colleague of mine returned from a big meeting of Chief State School Officers and their Departments. The topic was the Common Core of Standards. Today this release came out informing everyone about a competition to create a “Common Assessment” to go with the “Common Standards.”
Word on the street has it that officials feel [...]
Tags: national standards · national testing · Race to the Top
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
Do “Common Core Standards” have to be developed openly to be “common?”
July 31st, 2009 1 Comment
As most of our readers would know, 46 states have signed on to develop a “Common Core” of educational standards, which means of course…that national standards have now arrived.
And…in the age of accountability…you know what comes next…some form of testing those national standards.
Which means that there is some consternation about what those standards will look [...]
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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…..
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What do you think of National Standards?
June 5th, 2009 5 Comments
The big education news this week is that there are 46 states that have agreed to setting national standards in education. Washington Post article here.
Is this a good idea?
I didn’t use to think so.
Then I got tired of constant fussing and arguing over state standards and thought of the ineffectiveness of all 50 states constantly revising their [...]
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