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Reinventing the Big Test: The Challenge of Authentic Assessment | Edutopia
The educational assessment tests states use today have two fundamental flaws: They encourage the sort of mind-numbing drill-and-kill teaching educators (and students) despise, and, just as important, they don't tell us much about the quality of student learning.
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The educational assessment tests states use today have two fundamental flaws: They encourage the sort of mind-numbing drill-and-kill teaching educators (and students) despise, and, just as important, they don't tell us much about the quality of student learning.
when will we ever learn?current issues, food for thought, background information
internalising evidence from evaluations: three perspectives on learning.
Development agencies are consistently required to improve their performance, in terms not only of project outcomes, but also of the quality of their programming and their institutional capacity. In a very practical sense, evaluations are now perceived as learning opportunities. It only seems logical, therefore, to try and improve the internalisation of evaluation results at different levels.
Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship — HBS Working Knowledge
producing and disseminating knowledge within a multidisciplinary community of practice is enhanced when knowledge workers hold compatible assumptions, even when the form and content of knowledge generation across those workers varies
UNdemocracy - Front page
UN watchdog site that gives easy access to the transcripts of the General Assesmby and Security Council of the UN.
delicious blog » who says librarians (and teachers) don’t like tags
several links to sites documenting the use of del.icio.us in research and libary work
Mediated Cultures: Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University
aggregator site with lots of material on the ethnology of web use
History of Literacy Home
International Reading Association's History of Reading Special Interest Group
The Neuroscience Institute
Cognitive symptoms of depression. Cognitive deficits, impaired cognitive function
COOPER Initiative [EU][FP6][IST]
The COOPER project is dedicated to supporting long-distance cooperation of teams of students working on complex projects, assuming that the students and advisors are geographically dispersed and have heterogeneous backgrounds and competencies. EU 6th fram
HBS Working Knowledge: Incompatible assumptions: barriers to proeducing multidisciplinary knowledge in communities of scholarship
pdf doc. We explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how incompatible assumptions across subgroups may inhibit the generation of multidisciplinary knowledge
Global Development Network: Toolkit: Disseminating research online
This toolkit provides broad tips and practical suggestions for communicating academic research using the internet. It draws on best practice for web strategies from the information and commercial worlds, especially selected to help the successful electron
International Education Research Database - Home
The Research database is an online resource for teachers and educators involved in all aspects of research in international education. It is a referencing resource, rather than an online library, and does not hold the actual publications.
Why disseminate research online?
What are the benefits of disseminating research online? How would you go about it if you do not have your own website? ... toolkit
Research/Practice - Fall 2000 Authentic Intellectual Work: What and Why (CAREI)
prof dev project helped teachers understand & implement "authentic" teaching, esp to create more challenging,interesting assessments to evaluate learning. Results show that teachers can improve their assessments and when they do, students perform at highe
Drape's Takes: Surveys Via Google Spreadsheets
how to use Google docs to create online survey forms, with results that can be seen live online
The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University
Mission: to advance the theory, practice, and utilization of evaluation. The Center's principal activities are research, development, dissemination, service, instruction, and national and international leadership in evaluation.
Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation
mission: the news and thinking of the profession and discipline of evaluation in the world, for the world. A peer-reviewed journal published in association with the Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University.
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