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How teacher unions lobby government to block educational reform
Wintery Knight —
Authority: 553
If you study software engineering management, you learned about the importance of measuring different quantities to asses the quality of the software being produced. For instance, we measure things like unit test coverage, coupling, cohesion and cyclomatic complexity. In fact, just today I had to add unit tests to ...5 days ago -
The Class for the “Slow” Is Ahead of its Time
Stray Blog —
Authority: 111
My sister just started working in the “DD” Class at the local public high school. The “DD” stands for developmentally disabled. Yesterday they watched a movie about the Great Barrier Reef to learn about Australia. Then they went to the Dollar Store to purchase Christmas gifts for the class’s “Secret ...6 days ago -
So whats the exchange rate?
Heavy Lifting —
Authority: 129
Between the GRE scores c. 1991 and the GRE scores c. 2011? The new GRE will be graded on a scale of 130-170? This will reduce the variance in the scores and, unfortunately, reduce the signal-noise ratio in the scores. There seems to have been a trend in the past ten years of moving away from the standardized test ...1 week ago -
End-of-course exams would be better than "exit" exams, advocacy group says
Sentinel School Zone —
Authority: 136
As we reported last week, Florida will begin field testing its first two end-of-course exams this spring. These statewide final exams (for now, Florida plans to have four, rolled out in the next few years) could eventually be used in...3 weeks ago -
Not so standardized tests
Joanne Jacobs —
Authority: 596
Todd Farley’s Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry gets a review in the Washington Post. After rising from scorer to trainer to test writer, Farley concluded that standardized tests are “less a precise tool to assess students’ exact abilities than just a lucrative ...3 weeks ago
