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Showing posts with label standards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label standards. Show all posts

Coherence Gap Spreadsheet

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I'm overdue in getting this out into the wider world, but I've developed a spreadsheet that incorporates all the coherence connectio...

Starting the Standards Era: NCTM and the 1980s (Part 6 of 6, Focusing the Council on Standards)

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(See Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , and Part 5 of this six-part series.) The successful release of the 1989 NCTM Standards paved the ...

Starting the Standards Era: NCTM and the 1980s (Part 5 of 6, Making a Draft Widely Available for Review; Publishing and Promoting)

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(See Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , and Part 4 of this six-part series.) So far this series has described the first three of six characteristic...

Starting the Standards Era: NCTM and the 1980s (Part 4 of 6, Establishing and Supporting Working Groups)

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(See Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 of this six-part series.) NCTM's standards-writing process began in 1986 when the Council proposed th...

Starting the Standards Era: NCTM and the 1980s (Part 3 of 6, Meeting a [Perceived] Need)

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(See Part 1 and Part 2 of this six-part series.) "Exactly where the Agenda 's call for action might have led without the appearan...

Starting the Standards Era: NCTM and the 1980s (Part 2 of 6, Asserting a Policy-Minded Orientation)

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From the NCTM's inception in 1920 until the 1960s, the organization "played an important but usually secondary role" (McLeod, ...

Starting the Standards Era: NCTM and the 1980s (Part 1 of 6, Where Curriculum and Policy Meet)

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The Common Core State Standards might be the current story, but to gain a broader perspective of this "standards era" of educatio...

Common Core Conundrum: Absolute Value

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I should begin by first disclaiming that while I'm generally pro-standards, I'm also somewhat agnostic about standards. How can that...

RYSK: Greeno, Pearson, & Schoenfeld's Implications for NAEP of Research on Learning and Cognition (1996)

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This is the 14th in a series describing " Research You Should Know " (RYSK). You might have read my recent post about Lorrie She...

RYSK: Shepard's The Role of Assessment in a Learning Culture (2000)

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This is the 13th in a series describing " Research You Should Know " (RYSK). In her presidential address at the 2000 AERA confe...

Bonnie H. Litwiller, 1937-2012

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I got word tonight that my undergraduate advisor, Bonnie Litwiller, passed away a couple days ago at the age of 74 . As a freshman at UN...

Sorting Out the Summative: When Standards-Based Grading Meets the End of the Semester

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Source: Wikipedia Many teachers who choose to use standards-based grading eventually find themselves facing the reality of their school...