Saturday, February 4, 2012

School Creativity Indices: Measurement Folly or Overdue Response to Test-Based Accountability?

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Daniel T. Hickey A February 2 article in Education Week surveyed efforts in California, Oklahoma, and other states to gauge the opport...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Finnish Lessons: Start a Conversation

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Rebecca C. Itow and Daniel T. Hickey In the world of Education, we often talk of holding ourselves and adhering to “high standards,”...
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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Another Misuse of Standardized Tests: Color Coded ID Cards?

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An October 4, 2011 Orange County Register article that reports a California high school’s policy to color code student ...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Introducing Rebecca

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It has been just about six months since I closed up my classroom in sunny Southern California, picked up my life, and moved to Bloomington, ...
Monday, December 12, 2011

RMA is back!

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After an extended hiatus, Re-Mediating Assessment is back.  In the meantime, lots has happened.  Michelle Honeyford completed her PhD and jo...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

short-sighted and socially destructive: thoughts on Ning's decision to cut free services

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Lord knows I'm not a huge fan of Ning, the social networking tool that allows users to create and manage online networks. I find the des...
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Friday, April 2, 2010

Diane Ravitch Editorial on the Failure of NCLB

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I have long admired Diane Ravitch. While I have disagreed with her on fundamental philosophical grounds, her arguments have always been grou...
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Video of Barry McGaw on Assessment Strategies for 21st Century Skills (Measurement Working Group)

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I just came across a video of a keynote by Barry McGaw at last month’s Learning and World Technology Forum. McGaw heads the Intel/Microsoft...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Can We Really Measure "21st Century" Skills?

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The members of the 21st Century Assessment Project were asked a while ago to respond to four pressing questions regarding assessment of “21s...
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Monday, November 16, 2009

Join this discussion on Grading 2.0

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Over at the HASTAC forum , a conversation has begun around the role of assessment in 21st-century classrooms. The hosts of this discussion...