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Skill of Meeting Deadlines as 21st Century SKill
I recent had the opportunity to talk with several business people, mostly managers. I asked them about what skills they look for in new employees. They mentioned the usual 21st century skills of...
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Check Lower Level Learning Immediately (Formative Assessment)
We all want our students to be learning at the higher levels of thinking. However, they first have to learn lower level information. For example, Spanish students want to converse in the language...
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Web 2.0 Use May Not Be Formative Assessment
As I look at articles, blogs, and conference sessions, I see titles like Formative Assessment Through Clickers Formative Assessment Through Cell phones Formative Assessment Through the Class...
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Why do students’ final grades not reflect their highest achievements?
Many teachers calculate the students’ final grade by having a grading program or spreadsheet average the four quarters and the final. However, this averaged grade does not represent the students’...
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Class increase of 12 points over last semester
I give a pre-test and a post test in my Spanish course. From the pre-test I can measure the students incoming knowledge. From the post-test I measure their departing knowledge. More importantly, I...
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Healing Learning injuries: The Immediacy of Formative Feedback
If a student has hurt herself and is bleeding, we do not say, “Wait a few days and we will take care of your bleeding.” We help stop the bleeding immediately. However, when a student bleeds...
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Online Grading For Communicating Students’ Learning Problems and Successes
Administrators want accountability for learning in schools. One way to build greater accountability is for teachers to use online grading programs that give students and their parents access to the...
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Problems with Institutional Assessment
Assessment dominates education from K-12 through college. There are different types of assessment, formative (helps students improve) and summative (grading of students). However, institutional...
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What is the Role of Technology in the Teaching-Learning process?
A very creative elementary teacher will retire in June because she no longer feels she can teach due to her district’s technology push. Her district purchased a math online program in which the...
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Mobile Learning and Assessment
Can use a wide variety of mobile devices and of mobile apps for capturing student learning, analyzing it, providing feedback, and recognizing learning success. Identify the specific learning goal Have...
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Digital Badges: Better Than Grades?
Teachers understand that the grade in a course consists of many different factors such as homework, participation , projects, tests, etc. Blodget observes that sometimes grades reflect attitude,...
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