A Simple Metric to Align Higher Education with the Workplace
It is now widely accepted that the job of college is to get you a job. While schools are talking...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jul 18, 2018 | 21st Century Skills, Challenges to Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, E-learning, Higher Education, Information Literacy, Politics and Dysfunction, Working World | 0 |
It is now widely accepted that the job of college is to get you a job. While schools are talking...
Read Moreby Andrew | Mar 13, 2017 | 21st Century Skills, Authentic Assessment, Challenges to Assessment, Higher Education, Outcomes Assessment, Rubrics | 0 |
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Read Moreby Andrew | Apr 10, 2014 | Challenges to Assessment, Culture, ePortfolios, Higher Education, Politics and Dysfunction, Writing Instruction | 0 |
Scott Warnock has a nice survey of the coverage of the SAT in his most recent When Falls the...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jun 12, 2013 | 21st Century Skills, AACSB, Accreditation, Challenges to Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, Culture, Education Reform, Higher Education, Outcomes Assessment, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
What do students get for investing four to six years in higher education? The opportunity cost, the tuition dollars, the resulting debt? What is the return to taxpayers footing billions of federal and state dollars for loans,...
Read Moreby Andrew | Apr 19, 2013 | Analytics, Challenges to Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, E-learning, Higher Education, K12, Outcomes Assessment, Politics and Dysfunction, Rubrics, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
How do we know what anyone knows? For school admissions, for hiring… An experiment in the second category is well under way in US K12. The Common Core has landed, with children and parents boycotting the tough new exams in...
Read Moreby Andrew | Feb 17, 2013 | Accreditation, Challenges to Assessment, Conferences, Cost of Education, E-learning, Education Reform, ePortfolios, Higher Education, K12, Outcomes Assessment, Politics and Dysfunction, Working World | 0 |
Like the forces of good and evil in a Harry Potter knock-off, educators and stakeholders are...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jan 27, 2013 | Authentic Assessment, Challenges to Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, E-learning, Formative Assessment, Higher Education, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized | 0 |
My daughter is in seventh grade. She’s reading Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff (and that Homer guy), and enjoying it. She was sitting on a Saturday morning (after a good shot of cartoons) reading – every...
Read Moreby Andrew | Dec 11, 2011 | Challenges to Assessment, Culture, Feedback, Higher Education, K12, Uncategorized | 0 |
When I was an RA (Residential Assistant) in college my floor got new carpets over the summer. I walked out to my first floor meeting, with my 20 or 30 freshman who would soon be (already were) smoking cigarettes, consuming vast...
Read Moreby Andrew | Dec 7, 2011 | Challenges to Assessment, Higher Education, K12, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized | 0 |
What if 50% of the students in a classroom demanded that their questions be answered? That their agenda be the focus? Education would fall apart. There is an unwritten contract between traditional students and traditional...
Read Moreby Andrew | Dec 5, 2011 | Authentic Assessment, Challenges to Assessment, K12, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
I don’t know much about standardized testing; I took the PSAT and the SAT. I was a decent...
Read Moreby Andrew | Aug 11, 2011 | Authentic Assessment, Challenges to Assessment, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized | 0 |
At home this summer we’ve been trying to keep some math and reading in the daily (weekly) routine – just so we don’t all forget how to subtract compound fractions. I gave my daughter a hard-ish multiplication...
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