Standardized Testing Helps Schools, Teachers Be Accountable
Situated within that debate and drawing from it, this paper examines the relationship among teachers, teaching, and standardized testing, using the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) as a case study of consequences. Based on a six-month study comprising interviews with five secondary ...
Read full article | Comments Off on Teachers Stating What Matters in Their Classrooms Good morning! We may be snowbound here in Chicago, but I’ve uploaded to YouTube two new videos with teachers stating what matters in their classrooms. You can view one here and the other here. The pic...
Meanwhile, more than $1.7 billion is spent on standardized testing in the US each year,according to a study by the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings. Another $669 million is spent on elementary assessments. Between $34-65 per student per year is spent by the states on standardiz...
20. Which of the following statements is NOT in agreement with the author's view? (A) The English tradition of nature writing should be reflected and reconsidered. (B) The values implicit in the language of natural history should be challenged. ...
In response to an increasingly "test driven" approach to curriculum and instruction, a growing body of research is documenting the negative effects of standardized testing on instruction, pupils, and teachers. The curriculum has been narrowed to fit the tests, valuable instructional time is spent ...
Finding culture in American and Russian teachers talk about standardized testingIgnatieva, Raisa
Testing resources:Standardized tests, classroom assignments, online submissions, quizzes, essays, collaborative projects Artificial intelligence (large language models):Artificial intelligence, like chatGPT, a large language model, is trained on vast amounts of collective human knowledge. It has a conver...
For example, China's high power distance culture, as described in Hofstede's (2001) cultural dimensions theory, may lead students to view teachers' efforts more favourably, potentially inflating their perceptions of DI implementation. Additionally, the concept of differentiation might be understood ...
Diagnosing learning behavior is one of teachers' most central tasks. So far, accuracy in teachers' judgments on students' achievement has been investigated. In this study, a new perspective is taken by developing and testing a three-dimensional model that describes the process of diagnosing learning...