“Effective schools” is a nebulous term. We could define schools in which students earn top scores on standardized tests as effective; likewise, we could define schools in which students write cogent essays (or create paintings, music, and dance) expounding the evils of standardized tests as effective.
Elevator Pitch on Multitasking
https://hackscience.education/2019/07/23/elevator-pitch-on-multitasking/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
By including participation, engagement, flexibility, adaptability, and similar soft skills in our assessment and evaluation of students we are communicating to them these are valuable skills to develop. By removing these from their evaluation, educators are ignoring the most important skills students can develop.
The natural sciences are based on a simple approach to answering questions:
- Holding everything in the environment constant, expect for one variable.
- Changing the one variable in for one group of “things”
- Measuring whatever “growth” or change that interests you.
- Ascribing any changes to the one variable.
Data-driven folks like to think they do the same. They don’t.
A Response to Standard Education
https://hackscience.education/2019/07/18/a-response-to-standard-education/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation at a community college in New England
Retired k-12 science/ math/ technology teacher/ technology integration specialist/ coordinator