Post Tagged with: "Assessment"

In his book, Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goldman relates an ongoing study tracking valedictorians and salutatorians from the class of 1981.  The study relates that by […]

It’s true.  The class of 2012 has the dubious distinction of having the lowest average SAT scores in forty years.  An anomaly?  No. Last year’s […]

If you google, “Harvard Graduates Explain Seasons,” you’ll find a fascinating video clip. Shot as part of the educational documentary, “A Private Universe,” Harvard Graduates […]

What can I possibly say to make this class understand?  What can I show them?  What can we do so that they “get it?” We […]

Teaching Writing From 30,000 Feet Good writing is good thinking. Well written is well thought out–which is to say that it’s well planned, well organized, […]

“You don’t fatten a pig by weighing it.” — Mark Brunel (best educational testing comment) via Twitter

Leahy, S., Lyon, C., Thompson, M., &Wiliam, D.  (November 2005).  Classroom assessment: minute by minute, day by day.  (Electronic version). Association for Supervision and Curriculum […]

I had accepted a job as a 7th grade language arts teacher, and I was ecstatic to have a job where I could share my love for reading. However, I had no idea how to best teach these early adolescents who everyone seemed to be scared of. This lead me to the action research project I undertook for my Master’s Degree: brain based differentiation. This series of articles outlines what I learned.

Ball, W. H. & Brewer, P. F. (1996). Socratic seminars. In Teaching in the block: strategies for engaging active learners (pp. 29-65). An Annotation by […]

An Annotation Earl, L. (2003). Using Assessment to Motivate Learning.  In Assessment as learning: Using classroom assessment to maximize student learning. (pp. 67-77). Thousand Oaks, […]