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24 Aug 09

Why is it so hard for us to do the right thing?

[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] As leaders, we often know what is the right thing to do. Just to pick a few examples… We know that ongoing, formative progress monitoring is more appropriate than ‘data days’ or ‘data retreats’ for yearly summative data, and yet many schools still only do the latter....

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Op-Ed Contributor - What’s the Value of a Big Bonus? - NYTimes.com

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions.”

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  • What would you expect the results to be? When we posed this question to a group of business students, they said they expected performance to improve with the amount of the reward. But this was not what we found. The people offered medium bonuses performed no better, or worse, than those offered low bonuses. But what was most interesting was that the group offered the biggest bonus did worse than the other two groups across all the tasks.
27 Apr 09

Testing Time | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

  • We spend very little time on direct test-preparation (the day before the tests begins, several of my colleagues and I may spend a half-hour on test-taking strategies and specific test “vocabulary”), but we spend the rest of the year preparing students to become life-long learners.

Test-Taking Strategies | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

  • Test-taking Tips



    Ø Read each question carefully and more than once


    Ø Read the questions before you read the longer text


    Ø Underline important words in the text as you read


    Ø Do easy questions first


    Ø Skip the hard questions and come back to them later (put a mark in your test booklet next to the ones you skip)


    Ø Eliminate wrong answers and make your best guess


    Ø Trust yourself, your first guess is usually the best


    Ø If you do want to change an answer, be sure to erase the first one completely


    Ø Use your reading strategies-you’ve been practicing them all year!

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