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Is It Dumb To Give Preschoolers Standardized Tests?
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By Cathy Davidson on Jul 19th, 2011
  1. Assessment & Evaluation
  1. assessment
  2. No Child Left Behind
  3. Race to the Top
  4. schools
  5. testing
  6. Valerie Strauss

    The answer to the question in my headline title, "Is It Dumb to Give Preschoolers Standardized Tests?" is unequivocal: ...
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Why Badges Work Better Than Grades
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By Cathy Davidson on Mar 21st, 2011
  1. Assessment & Evaluation
  1. badges
  2. badging
  3. reward
  4. testing

When the distinguished visitor asked Tim, my very intelligent and media-savvy student, why he was taking my class "This Is Your Brain on the...
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Testing, Testing! A Pointed Response to the NY Times
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By Cathy Davidson on Jan 20th, 2011
  1. Assessment & Evaluation
  2. Government & Politics
  1. assessment
  2. mutliple choice
  3. NCLB
  4. standardization
  5. standards
  6. testing
  7. tests

Since I am a passionate critic of the current state of testing in the United States, where No Child Left Behind bases  its judgment of...
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Pointed Response to NYT Article on iPads in Schools
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By Cathy Davidson on Jan 5th, 2011
  1. Academia
  2. Assessment & Evaluation
  3. K-12 Learning
  1. education
  2. institutional reform
  3. iPads
  4. schools
  5. testing

This week saw another mostly celebratory account of iPads in schools in the New York Times, "Math That Moves:  Schools Embrace the iPad," by...
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Standardization vs Standards? Schools Lose
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By Cathy Davidson on Mar 11th, 2010
  1. Academia
  2. Assessment & Evaluation
  1. education
  2. standardization
  3. standards
  4. testing

This morning on Twitter, Michael Josefowicz, a retired printer who tweets as ToughLoveforX, managed to say in 140 pithy characters something...
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Why Grade? Why Test? What If?
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By Cathy Davidson on Feb 8th, 2010
  1. Academia
  2. Assessment & Evaluation
  1. education
  2. grading
  3. learning
  4. testing

I'm blogging today over on DML Central:  www.dmlcentral.net

 
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What We Should Be Testing and Assessing
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By Cathy Davidson on Jan 15th, 2010
  1. 21st Century Literacies
  2. Assessment & Evaluation
  3. Pedagogy & Teaching
  1. assessment
  2. evaluation
  3. pedagogy
  4. skills
  5. standards
  6. testing

I was asked what skills I would want to assess if I were to reform "standards-based" education.   David Gibson, who will be one of our...
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Think Like Einstein
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By Cathy Davidson on Dec 4th, 2009
  1. Academia
  2. Assessment & Evaluation
  3. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. education
  2. evaluation
  3. grading
  4. No Child Left Behind
  5. STEM
  6. testing

I often lecture or blog about  grading, arguing that the way we now assign grades is an antiquated system that may have worked well for the...
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Are Multitaskers Worse at Multitasking?
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By Cathy Davidson on Aug 25th, 2009
  1. Academia
  2. Assessment & Evaluation
  3. Legal, Licensing & Copyright
  4. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. attention
  2. hierarchy
  3. learning
  4. multitasking
  5. popular media
  6. testing

Are multitaskers really worse at multitasking than those who don't multitask?   If you read the popular media accounts of the new study...
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