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How much technology should we have in schools?
I'm talking about things like laptops, iPods, desktops. All those sorts of devices that let you connect to the internet or type things on a keyboard and save them electronically as opposed to a notebook with paper. I bring this up because it is a poi (More)
Marzano's Assessment Ideas
Okay, it had to come sooner or later. A post from me on Robert J Marzano's assessment ideas. There's a lot here. He's got a few biggish books on it (More)
Performance Tasks Revisited
Still scrambling to find performance tasks for senior science courses, I went back to the source. More)
Assessment - the perils of coercion
I've been grappling with assessment as it relates to education for about five years now.  Six years ago and before I just assessed. I gave quizzes, tests, labs, projects and assignments. I marked them. I handed them back. I used a marks program to de (More)