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08 Nov 07

Education Week: Closing the Measurement Gap

  • Not that this is necessarily "bad," but the comparison is somewhat problematic.  Asking "which hospitals are likely to have their heart patients die" is not the same as "which schools are failing to successfully educate students in basic skills."

    Nevertheless, the more nuanced (and logical) approach to school assessment seems smart to me.

     - ehoefler on 2007-11-08
  • high-mortality hospitals for heart patients
  • rather than reporting hospitals’ raw mortality rates, states “risk adjust” these numbers to take patient severity into account.
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18 Feb 07

Tommy & Roy: Domestic Shock and Awe on the Education Front | The Huffington Post

  • I left the session with the impression that they really didn't want to hear our concerns and that our testimony was beside the point.

STANFORD Magazine: July/August 2006 > Features > No Child Left Behind

  • “massive” use of standardized tests “is one of the most effective, if unintentional, vehicles this country has created for suppressing creativity.”
  • NCLB’s greatest absurdity derives from the demand that schools alone wipe out the achievement gap.
05 Jan 07

Assessment Cyberguide for Learning Goals and Outcomes

  • Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy to include "create" as the highest domain - ehoefler on 2007-01-05
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