<div dir="ltr">Hi red-penners*<div><br></div><div>Apologies for the crosspost, but you're all teachers and you all have to evaluate students one way or another.<div><br></div><div>This may be useful for newbie chalkies**. It quickly covers the different classical assessment paradigms.</div><div><br></div><div><b><a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/04/think-know-grades-heres-really-work/">https://www.wired.com/2017/04/think-know-grades-heres-really-work/</a></b></div><div><br></div><div><div>Note - It does not cover the famous 'Stair Assessment Technique' (SAT) whereby a teacher stands atop a staircase and throws the students' outcomes into the air. </div><div>First-step landings are an 'A'. Outcomes landing on the second step are a 'B'. etc.</div><div>(This evaluation methodology is rarely covered in Dip.Ed. courses any more. Sigh.)</div></div><div><br></div><div>Mark<br></div><div><br></div><div>* Are teachers still allowed to mark students' work in red pen, or is that now considered 'hostile'?</div><div><br></div><div>** Chalk? Well, young one, sit down and I tell you a story of the old days where there were these things called 'blackboards' (hehehe, yeah, not whiteboards!) and...<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>True story: when I was in grade 3 or so I told my mother that the blackboard at school looked green. She took me to an eye doctor. It turned out blackboards <i>were</i> black in her day. In mine they <i>were</i> greenish. Now they're <i>white</i>. For heaven's sake, people. When will this nonsense ever end? Why can't we go back to the good old times when we used red ochre on cave walls for hunting lessons?</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Mark Kelly</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a><br></div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Powered by <b>rubrics and ochre.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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