Brookhart, S.M. (2004) p442 Thomas and Oldfather (1997) pointed out the logical connections between individual teachers’ epistemological beliefs and their assessment practices. If one believes knowledge is static, it follow that assessment should focus on scoring content. If one believes … Continue reading
From Thorpe, K. (2004). Reflective learning journals: From concept to practice. Reflective Practice, 5(3), 327-343. Page. 329
The past Friday, I went to Greene County Middle school with Z and S. The teacher was doing a wireless grant in her classroom, and she hoped we went there to observe her and give and some suggestion. We went … Continue reading
I have been suspicious, even I myself conducted a survey about this topic, and I read an article about involving students into summative assessment. Because almost al people who heard this idea responded negatively. They think: Teacher get paid, so … Continue reading
I am helping with evaluating these applications from k-12 schools of GA. This process teaches me a lot. I know what this type of application should look like now. I know how different those application proposals could be when they … Continue reading
I am rereading the book of Educative Assessment: DesigningAssessments to Inform and Improve Student Performance by Wiggins, Grant. P. He is talking about the difference between a traditional unauthentic assessment and an assessment for a real world. One of the biggest differences … Continue reading
I just finished reading Dr. Helen Barrett and Joanne Carney’s paper of Conflicting Paradigms and Competing Purposes in Electornic Portfolio Development. It is really a good paper for me because it answered many of my questions. I have been always wondering why … Continue reading
My advisor suggested me use learning by design as my theory framework of my research on e-p. Meanwhile, we will have the class of Design based research. I know they are different things because design based research is more like a … Continue reading
I searched Wiki but there seems be no definition for this abbreviative word. And it is explained like this on website of http://www.epssinfosite.com/: EPSS is defined as an integrated electronic environment that is available to and easily accessible by each employee and is … Continue reading
I have known blogger.com for a long time but never tried it until just now. It is belong to Google also. I like Google, but after I tried blogger, I don’t like it so much. The main reseason is it … Continue reading