As I've reported in Slate, the push toward computer grading of student essays has a lot to do with saving money; while the technology can assess grammar, spelling, and structure, it can not yet
tell whether students have real knowledge of facts from the curriculum.
The Education Trust, for example, is urging states to use caution in choosing «comparative» growth models, including growth percentiles and value - added measures, because they don't
tell us whether students are making enough progress to hit the college - ready target by the end of high school, or whether low - performing subgroups are making fast enough gains to close achievement gaps.
It's also how to
tell whether students know what they're talking about.
These results
tell us whether a student attending a randomly selected charter school will perform better, on average, than a similar student attending a traditional public school.
Our current assessments can
tell us whether a student has arrived, but they don't tell us whether the students who haven't arrived are on their way, made a wrong turn, or have a flat tire.
This document can
tell you whether a student is performing at the expected level, or is at risk for struggling.
The award listings have minimal information, making it difficult to
tell whether the student actually matches the scholarship's eligibility requirements.
Not exact matches
The fake news element tests skills like
whether a
student can
tell when data is being presented in a misleading way, and
whether students can distinguish between facts, opinions, and propaganda.
Whether you've got
student loans or a trust fund you never
told your partner about, it's time to come completely clean and make sure your partner knows exactly what's in your name in case something happens to you.
Moreover, it is now doubtful
whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As
told to me by a law
student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.
In one experiment, researchers
told the
students the test they were taking would gauge their career success and then asked
students whether they believed God had a hand in that success.
When I asked
whether the neighbors think Rutba is weird, Jonathan said, «You should hear [the high school
student]
tell his friends where he lives.
Whether it was by Lane Kiffin or another one of the coaches, no
Student Manager would do this without being
told to.
At Castilleja, the only prize you get for a senior talk or 8th grade speech is flowers — flowers and the comments of teachers and
students alike who will
tell you «congrats on your speech» and «great speech,»
whether you have spoken to them before in your life or not.
That would mean tens of thousands of
students will continue to be tested against standards that don't
tell them or their families
whether they are prepared for college.
It is however not clear
whether this attire is their official uniform but one of the
students told Ghcampus.com that «this is the uniform we were asked to sow.»
Gove
told the BBC's Politics Show: «At the moment we're consulting on how the people premium, which is the additional money, the additional # 2.5 bn that we've made available for the poorest
students, will be allocated, and it depends precisely on
whether or not we allow the people premium to go to slightly more children, or we target it very narrowly on the very poorest.
Researchers at Haifa University in Israel could
tell whether or not
students were writing the truth by analyzing these physical properties of their handwriting.
Because the moral dilemma with the two boys had little in common with the wolf exercise,
students» reasoning on
whether Jack should
tell on his friend Thomas provided strong evidence as to which children were competent decision - makers and were able to apply those skills in an unrelated situation, the researchers wrote.
Whether or not these issues stop
students from returning, here are eight things your
students may not be
telling you:
Many teachers, for instance,
told OSSE that they didn't know
whether student absences were excused or unexcused absences (only unexcused absences count against graduation).
But at face value,
whether a
student can or can not carry a machine around all day
tells us little to nothing about a school's actual pedagogy, about the quality of interactions between
students and teachers, or about the rigor of the software programs delivered through those devices.
Whether the assessment is a test, project, oral report, or performance, the
students must be
told:
Whether you show completed projects to the class alone or to the entire school or even the whole community, present the stories your
students tell.
Most of the time, there are several gems buried in a list that
tell me things about my
students» preferences that I can easily address,
whether regularly («Please don't call on me without warning») or on a random day («I challenge you to a Bananagrams match!»).
As one school board member, reflecting on LA Unified School District's attempts to recover from a disastrous iPad roll out last year,
told the LA Times, «Why would we treat all our
students —
whether they are a first - grader or a high school freshman — as if they all had the same technology needs?
Evaluation of these new efforts will
tell us
whether a combined sequence of academic and CTE courses can benefit
students not only in career academies but also in other educational settings.
It's critically important that states
tell parents, teachers, and kids the truth about
whether individual
students are on track for college or career.
To keep
students from revealing the secret of the game, you might let them
tell some of their peers
whether they are correct as the scissors are passed.
Thus, Bogost's critique presented Darvasi's
students with a terrific teachable moment in which they could engage in critique and debate over
whether digital games can — or should — be used to
tell stories.
Students can
tell if we are warm and inviting and
whether or not they can entrust us with their stories.
A starter to focus
students on questioning why people vandalise works of art, thinking outside the box to lead into discussion
whether graffiti is art or vandalism, and how can you
tell the difference.
Test scores may
tell us something about
whether a
student will graduate from college, get a job, and so on.
Whether a
student can or can not carry a machine around all day
tells us little to nothing about a school's actual pedagogy, about the quality of interactions between
students and teachers, or about the rigor of the software programs delivered through those devices.
Such statistics
tell us nothing about
whether disabled
students are learning.
So the next time someone asks me why it matters
whether students go to art museums or see live theater, I can
tell them that there is at least as much rigorous evidence showing the long term benefits of cultural activity as there is for interventions designed to boost standardized test scores.
When feedback is given with details about the correct answer,
students learn more than if they are just
told whether the answer is correct or not (Wiliam, 2010).
One
student asks
whether she can swim, and Gilbert
tells him she's planning to participate in an annual swim event from San Francisco Bay's famed Alcatraz Island, a 1.5 - mile - long open - water race.
«Gateway characters opened up many other characters that could be engaged in any order,» O'Shea said, «so there was much less chance that
students would be able to
tell whether they were ahead or behind by looking at other groups» positions.»
«What we wanted with the CIS [evaluation] was to really have a look at how we could measure
whether we were developing global citizens and the degree to which the program in the school curriculum, and generally, was helping our
students become international and intercultural,» Reddan
told Education Matters magazine.
Victorian educator Seamus Curtain - Magee — mentor to one of the 2017 winners, Team Kalianna —
told Teacher,
students also benefited from the teamwork aspect, working to deadlines and taking personal accountability for their contribution to the final product (
whether it be in storytelling, music creation, artwork or coding tasks).
It makes it easier to
tell whether a given
student's poor performance is an exception within a class or
whether the whole class is doing poorly relative to the country as a whole.
But it does not
tell us
whether teacher disagreements about black
students mean that black teachers are overly optimistic or white teachers are overly pessimistic.
Alfred S. Regnery, administrator of the Justice Department's office of juvenile jus - tice and delinquency prevention,
told members of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice that the department is examining the Supreme Court's landmark 1975
student - rights decision, Wood v. Strickland, to determine
whether it is possible to change the federal statute on which the...
«Sure beats the «What I Did This Summer» assignment, and it still gives you a chance to assess
whether your
students can write sentences and paragraphs,» she
told Education World.
Remember to acknowledge, applaud and recognize all the good choices your
student made throughout the incident —
whether that choice was
telling you or not retaliating with further hurtful statements.
Whether students tell a story based on fitness data like the Fitbit or use the Apple Watch's heart - rate data to write about an exciting day, providing meaningful context for storytelling while engaging
students with new technology can help them think outside of the box.
But Clark is unapologetic about
telling students who aren't willing to do their work —
whether at school or on the job — that they can't stay.
A similarly sly autolatrous tactic, plentifully deployed, is Esquith's portrayal of just about everyone he meets as well meaning but misguided,
whether it's the Dodger Stadium tour guide who mistakenly believes that his angelic preteen coterie is «extraordinary,» or the TSA employee who can't comprehend that his wholesome pupils would choose not to tote Game Boys onto an airplane, or the flight attendant who can't grasp that his cherubic
students won't need DVD players for their traveling duration — that, as Esquith
tells her, «they're going to read.»
Honestly, who cares
whether students can conjugate verbs correctly if they can't
tell someone what they need?