Yet a multiple choice test of discrete facts plucked from across a millennium strikes me as a poor ruler for measuring how well teachers can animate the past. (gse.harvard.edu)
They present ideas didactically as discrete facts to be accepted, rather than as clues of principles to be discovered and explored. (edutopia.org)
«What I like about the Smarter Balanced Assessment is that students are being asked to think more critically and use more mathematical problem - solving skills,» said 2007 Oregon Teacher of the Year Jacqueline M. Cooke, an elementary math facilitator in Portland, Ore. «Because more value is placed on application of mathematics concepts rather than regurgitation of discrete facts, it's a stronger assessment.» (smarterbalanced.org)