Posted in assessment & reporting, curriculum on Nov 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
It had to happen of course; that the new spirit of national cooperation and cooperative revolution would get stickier and trickier when it got down to the details. Like the NAPLAN (National Asessment of Literacy and Numeracy) benchmarks and where they might be placed.
Last week the Herald-Sun gave some glimpse of that behind the scenes wrangling [...]
Posted in assessment & reporting, parents and schools, politics on Aug 17th, 2008 No Comments »
So, what’s wrong with league tables, except that Essendon has flattened out to 12th with two games to go? Nothing, if you want a simple and clear list from top to bottom with a whole lot of data attached. Plenty, if the idea is to simplify and simply rank what is much more complex than [...]
Posted in assessment & reporting on Jun 19th, 2008 1 Comment »
Barry McGaw’s article Science Good, maths holding, reading declining, published in the latest EQ (Autumn 2008) coming out of the Curriculum Corporation, discussing the latest data from international PISA testing, nicely illustrates some of my concerns with the national curriculum agenda.
McGaw, who has been appointed chair of the new National Curriculum Board, goes data-happy in [...]
Posted in assessment & reporting on May 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
A bit US-Centric, but it COULD happen here. Jay McTighe played this at the session yesterday:
Posted in assessment & reporting on May 17th, 2008 No Comments »
I spent most of this rainy Saturday in an Understanding by Design workshop facilitated by US curriculum design guru, Jay McTighe at Melbourne Grammar.
The focus of the day was primarily on stage 2 of the Understanding by Design process: determining acceptable evidence, and I worked in a small team with another Year 12 English teacher [...]
Posted in assessment & reporting, learning on Jan 22nd, 2008 2 Comments »
An article from the NY times today reports that attempts to measure teachers based on student scores isn’t limited to recent Australian political history. The twist here is that the NY teachers aren’t being told about the plan.
New York City has embarked on an ambitious experiment, yet to be announced, in which some 2,500 [...]
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