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Category Archives: Assessment
Who is Education’s Customer?
Today I attended a session about the relationships between business and education. The session was put on by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, a non-profit group that does really good work in my state to improve education on the … Continue reading
Have Questions? You Need ‘The Answer Pad’
That’s right…not just any old answer pad. THE Answer Pad. Over the past couple of months I’ve had the good fortune to meet and get to know Anna and Hal Sturrock, founders and inventors of The Answer Pad, at a … Continue reading
Using Frequent Formative Assessment
I read a really great article in The Atlantic about more testing, not less, in American classrooms. That was not a typo. It is a really fantastic article about how great testing can be…in spite of the much-maligned status of testing in the media! … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment
Tagged Atlantic, Education, Ezekiel Emanuel, Formative assessment, Friday, Koonz, Summative assessment, United States
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Competency-Based Education and Me.
I’m kind of liking this competency-based education thing. I think I’ve been behind the curve on this, because it’s only really come to my attention recently. And when I did a little more reading for this post, I could see … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, Instructional Design
Tagged Applied behavior analysis, Associate degree, Carnegie Unit and Student Hour, Education, Instructional design, Learning, Mastery learning, Performance, Southern New Hampshire University, Student, United States Department of Education, US Department of Education
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Five Tips for Using Student Response Systems for Formative Assessment
This post originally appeared on the Promethean Planet community blog on May 17, 2012. There are a few redundancies with another of my posts, Top 12 Best Practices for Clickers in the Classroom, but the current post endeavors to focus specifically … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, Technology
Tagged activengage, activexpression, activote, assessment, classroom technology, clickers, Education, Educational assessment, Educators, Formative assessment, K through 12, LRS, promethean planet, Promethean World, Student, student response systems, Teacher, Technology
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