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Paul Beaufait's List: Educational Measurement
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Dec 23, 19
"It is an assessment, formative or summative (your choice), with at least three tasks involving only one theme or concept (vocabulary, grammar, or cultural) and one of each of the three modes of communication: interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational. The three tasks are designed for students at their level of proficiency (novice, intermediate, or advanced). All use culturally authentic resources as well..." (What is an IPA?, ¶1).
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Aug 19, 15
"a broad array of guides, manuals and handbooks to meet the needs of learners, administrators and researchers"
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Sep 08, 14
"Multiple sources recommend about ten minutes per night in the first grade, then add ten minutes for every subsequent grade, for a maximum of two hours in all subjects by the 12th grade" (2. How much homework is recommended, ¶1 [of 1]).
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Sep 08, 14
In this post, Stack (2014.08.25) suggested four ways of developing or improving grading practices:
1. Separate and acknowledge the role of both formative and summative assessment.
2. Stop averaging averages to get more averages.
3. Separate academics from academic behaviors.
4. Use rubrics and a rubric scale, not percentage scores.
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Feb 26, 14
"This rubric may be used for assessing individual blog entries, including comments on peers’ blogs" (¶1, 2014.02.27)
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Feb 26, 14
A mother lode of rubrics for all sorts of products, projects, and processes
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Nov 11, 13
Part three in a series on self, peer, and collaborative learner assessment, with lists of references.
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Aug 01, 13
"While the authors of The SIOP Model advocate for writing separate content and language objectives, others are advocating for the incorporation of language skills into content objectives. In either case, making language learning explicit benefits students as it clarifies what they should know and learn in a given lesson" (¶9).
Some teachers also incorporate a third type of objective: behavioral. Behavioral objectives make explicit to students the actions and behaviors associated with classroom activities. Examples of behavioral objectives may include engaging in conversations, working in cooperative groups or delivering speeches" (¶10). -
Sep 24, 12
"GTEC is a new type of online test that has been developed in partnership between Benesse Corporation and Berlitz Corporation. It is designed to accurately measure genuine English proficiency for today's business environment" (Online Test for Measurement of Practical English Proficiency, ¶1, 2012.09.24).
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Sep 24, 12
The Council of Europe call the CEFR "a practical tool for setting clear standards to be attained at successive stages of learning and for evaluating outcomes in an internationally comparable manner" (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR), ¶1, 2012.09.24).
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Sep 24, 12
Table of comparisons among Eiken Grades, the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages, and TOEFL® paper-based and internet-based tests (PBT and iBT)
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Sep 16, 12
"What is now necessary is a comprehensive system that gives teachers the guidance and feedback, supportive leadership, and working conditions to improve their performance, and that permits schools to remove persistently ineffective teachers without distorting the entire instructional program by imposing a flawed system of standardized quantification of teacher quality." (Conclusions and recommendations, ¶13)
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Sep 16, 12
"... Here is a new important look by an education expert, Richard Rothstein." (Valerie Strauss, intro. ¶1)
Rothstein is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, a non-profit organization created to broaden the discussion about economic policy to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers. ..." (Valerie Strauss, intro. ¶2)
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Jun 19, 12
Vancouver English Centre (VEC) comparison of various tests, score ranges, and approximate VEC levels, with links to PDF of English Language Competency Descriptor for the IBT TOEFL Test, and to a directory of Language Schools in Vancouver
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Mar 08, 12
"... The project described in this digest was designed with the belief that teacher professional growth can best be fostered through sustained collaborative inquiry between teachers and researchers. It has set out to incorporate what is known about quality professional development with the special features necessary for meeting the needs of English language learners. The project has defined a model of sheltered instruction based on the research of best practices, as well as on the experiences of the participating teachers and researchers..." (¶1).
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Mar 06, 12
Dr. Marina Kostina suggested, "Digital worlds offer great opportunities for development of more sophisticated measures of assessment of learner’s knowledge and skills," and pointed out a suite of assessment rubrics that she'd found on "a professional development page of the website of the University of Wisconsin-Stout" (2012.01.25).
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Mar 05, 12
In this segment Michelle Norris explored "...arguments on both sides regarding the merits of these so-called 'high stakes' tests" with "Monty Neill, executive director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, and Paul Reville, a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education" (All Things Considered, December 10, 2002; retrieved March 5, 2012).
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Feb 23, 12
Pallas expounded on "rigor" in teacher evaluation.
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The challenge is to state education policymakers across the country who have hitched their teacher-evaluation systems to measures that seek to isolate teachers’ contributions to their students’ learning: Develop clear and consistent guidelines for assigning teachers to rating categories that take into account the inherent uncertainty and errors in the value-added measures and their variants.
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If policymakers aren’t willing to take measurement error into account in a defensible way in teacher-evaluation systems, don’t talk to me about rigor—rigor is dead.
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Aug 17, 11
"The Educational Testing Service, which administers the GRE and other standardized tests, found Web sites that prospective test takers were using to cheat. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports that some critics of institutional testing weren't surprised by the findings" (August 8, 2002)
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