Archive for the ‘Assessment’ Category
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Yong Zhao a University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education at Michigan State University and international consultant to many governments talks here about the dangers of the narrow use of national test scores to define what students need.
I heard him speak recently at our Statewide forum on the use ...
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
As our second semester begins we at Elsternwick have planned a series of 8 professional learning team meetings [PLT's] on Monday nights to focus on the use of data to improve student learning. This carries on from the 6 PLT's in semester 1.
On a slightly separate topic one of the ...
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
This little clip talks about using technology to personalise learning and record individualised assessments online. Its a timely reminded as we move forward with the Ultranet here in Victoria and the power of technology to personalise learning for students.
Stop Press
- talking about 21st century assessment what about teachers getting feedback ...
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Next month all year 3, 5 7, and 9 students in Australia embark on a series of National Tests over a 3 day period in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation and number.
Teachers have been encouraged to better prepare students for these tests by teaching the language of exams so ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
I don't think many teachers would disagree with the idea that its a good thing to use student assessment data to try and determine what students need to learn next, at least in Victorian schools - or would they?
Often teachers disagree on what student assessment data they find useful for one ...
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Well, as reported in the Age Newspaper, it didn't take long for some directive to teachers to teach to the Naplan test. We all know you get some short term gain for 1 year and as the article points out what do we drop from the curriculum.
Is this a sign ...
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Have a quick flick through this presentation as we in Australia shut down for the summer school holiday period. I'm reminded of a now famous quote "Yes we can" when I see this. I remember as far back as the spirit duplicator - what about you?
The presentation comes from Alan ...
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
I'm not sure this works for adults - hence my go at this for my staff but I can see this as a hit for students as they review their inquiry topic. I will post the wallwisher link for those interested in exploring this. The log on and account creation is ...
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
At last weeks leadership meeting we struggled for some time with the question how to best use the latest assessments we had of students mathematical understandings. During March we had all our 350 Prep - Year Four students individually tested using this new online version of the Mathematics Interview.
Using the ...
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
This past fortnight I have talked about my schools performance on national tests to school council [NAPLAN] and now I've seen lots of editorials and responses in newspapers about Australia's performance in the recent international tests in maths and science for years 4 and 8 students called TIMMS.
Kevin Donnelly wrote in the ...
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