Formative Automated Essay Scoring
July 19th, 2009
I usually think of automated essay scoring as something used for the big national and international tests (SAT, NAEP, etc.) However, an article by Scharber, Dexter, & Riedel looked at student responses to automated scorers a little differently; the automated essay scorer was used in a formative fashion. This is interesting as I think about [...]
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Prepared for College-Level Math Courses?
July 6th, 2009
There has been a long debate about the best way to teach math, and very recent discussion about high schools preparing college-ready students. Both issues were raised by a recent article in the American Educational Research Journal.
In the early 1990’s the National Science Foundation funded the creation of 13 mathematics programs that were mostly problem [...]
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Do Teacher Tests Predict Teaching Performance?
July 3rd, 2009
The majority of states now require some form of paper-and-pencil test for teacher licensure (although the content of these tests varies greatly). The idea of these tests is presumably to make sure that teachers coming into the system meet some minimum requirement. An empirical question, however, is whether these tests predict teaching performance.
Over the years, [...]
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