Comments on: Excessive Focus on Bubble Students? Change the Measure http://eduratireview.com/2009/04/excessive-focus-on-bubble-students-html/ Where Policy Meets Pedagogy Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:20:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: My Teacher Hat http://eduratireview.com/2009/04/excessive-focus-on-bubble-students-html/comment-page-1/#comment-35 My Teacher Hat Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:37:00 +0000 http://eduratireview.com/?p=35#comment-35 Very nice post. I like all three suggestions, but Suggestion #2 is especially great because it would be so simple to implement, but would have far-ranging effects.<br /><br />It is frustrating that most of us prefer performance-based assessments because of the multidimensional data they give us, but we feel pushed to give many tests so that students' test-taking skills will be honed before the state assessments. Very nice post. I like all three suggestions, but Suggestion #2 is especially great because it would be so simple to implement, but would have far-ranging effects.

It is frustrating that most of us prefer performance-based assessments because of the multidimensional data they give us, but we feel pushed to give many tests so that students’ test-taking skills will be honed before the state assessments.

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