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Entries Tagged as 'Standards & Testing'

Wells’s Promiscuously Incorrect Guide as High-Stakes Test for science education

September 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Does Wells’s Promiscuously Incorrect Guide give us a vehicle for considering, and improving, the quality of science education for the population of non-scientists?

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Tags: Evolution · Standards & Testing · blog

wikis and/as textbooks

September 12th, 2006 · No Comments

Maybe all students would be better off if they could use wiki-style textbooks developed by, say, scientists and science teachers, or historians and history teachers, instead of the textbooks being marketed by commercial publishers.

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Tags: Law & Policy · Standards & Testing · blog · media

dilemma: hi-stakes history test ?

September 3rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

I disagree with the notion that history can or will really be taught if we have high-stakes testing for history.

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Tags: BookTV · Social Studies · Standards & Testing · blog