Category Archives: Assessment

Who is Education’s Customer?

Posted on June 13, 2014 by karen mahon

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 →

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Have Questions? You Need ‘The Answer Pad’

Posted on December 6, 2013 by karen mahon

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 →

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Using Frequent Formative Assessment

Posted on September 25, 2013 by karen mahon

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 →

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Competency-Based Education and Me.

Posted on April 18, 2013 by karen mahon

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 →

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Competency Education…I Think I’m in Love

Posted on January 30, 2013 by karen mahon

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Five Tips for Using Student Response Systems for Formative Assessment

Posted on August 2, 2012 by karen mahon

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 →

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Three Revised Things to Unlearn About Learning

Posted on July 10, 2012 by karen mahon

Tina Barseghian wrote a nice piece today for Mind Shift about Will Richardson‘s 2012 ISTE presentation.  I often find myself disagreeing with Will’s posts on his site and this time is no exception.  My biggest point of disagreement with Will … Continue reading →

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