Value added – why its use makes me angry (OR: a good idea gone bad, again, in education)
Alert readers (as Dave Barry likes to say) will have noted that I haven’t blogged in a while. The reasons …
Category Archives: Assessment, testing
Standards, Part 3: The Arbitrary Single Grade or Score
In my previous two posts on standards, I pointed out that though we talk of “a” standard, it would be …
Teacher standards-based grading gets an F
I find it unbelievable that 20 years into the Standards movement you can count on one hand the number of …
Oh you can’t measure that
Oh, you can’t measure that… I hear this in almost every conversation about assessment of long-term educational goals. “Critical and …
