Archive for the 'Education' Category
09-10-31
Tags:Education Paperville Statstics Teaching NAEP Studies - State Mapping Executive Summary Since 2003, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has sponsored the development of […]
Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto NAEP Scales: 2005-2007
October 2009
Authors: Victor Bandeira de Mello, Charles Blankenship, Don McLaughlin
Download the complete report in a PDF file for viewing and printing. (2985K PDF)
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09-10-24
Tags:Education psychology Teaching NY Times reports that Disney, the current parent of Baby Einstein, acknowledges the uselessness of the video series. For years I have been using this as an example of commercialization of child development in my developmental psych course. I had come to accept it as a fact of life, but this news gives […]
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09-09-14
Tags:Education Teaching Alliance for Childhood‘s report Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School does not seem to provide data on 2 critical questions: (a) how have the American kindergartens changed, and (b) why kindergarten?
It was a bit of a let down, after the introduction claimed that US kindergartens have gone through drammatic changes, to not being able to find a figure or a […]
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09-04-22
Tags:Computing Education Teaching Google Trends shows an interesting contrast between the search volume of "reading" and "math". It’s scaled on so that the frequency of "reading" over the years averages to 1.
A few interesting observations:
1. nobody cares about reading or math when the holidays are near. (it’s also possible that the overall search volume […]
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09-03-23
Tags:Education psy145 Teaching
E.D. Hirsch Jr. has an op ed on NY Times yesterday (Reading Test Dummies) in which he attacks what he sees as the core problem of reading tests today:
These much maligned, fill-in-the-bubble reading tests are technically among the most reliable and valid tests available. The problem is that the reading passages […]
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08-11-26
Tags:Education math NCLB Teaching The Education Trust just published a new report on math teachers who shouldn’t be teaching math, according to NCLB. The numbers do not look good. “As a nation, we must commit ourselves to ensuring that all students – no matter where they live – are taught by strong teachers,” said Kati […]
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08-11-24
Tags:Education NCLB reading first New America Blogs has a belated post on the Reading First final report. It tries to present a balanced view, though in doing so it fails to justify the existing program.
In the meantime, however, these results should not be used as a rationale to defund the program. Ensuring that students can […]
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08-11-19
Tags:Education NCLB reading reading first Teaching And the final verdict is: Study of Reading Program Finds a Lack of Progress, at least not in reading comprehension of grades 1 through 3. There is a slight gain in decoding among 1st graders, and the effect size is small, 0.17. Washington Post quotes:
"It is a […]
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08-10-31
Tags:Education Linguistics Paperville Research: Phonics abstracts Farrar, J., Ashwell, S. & Maag, L. (2005). The emergence of phonological awareness: Connections to language and theory of mind development. First Language, 25(2), 157-172. The emergence of phonological awareness was examined in a longitudinal study. Two issues were of particular interest: (1) the relationship between phonological […]
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08-10-28
Tags:Education Accountability, Assessments and Transparency
Fact sheets
Public School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services
A Uniform, Comparable Graduation Rate
Live Event - South Carolina ETV
On Tuesday, October 28, at 12:00 noon ET in Columbia, South Carolina, Secretary Spellings will issue final Title I regulations to strengthen the No Child Left Behind Act, including requirements that states implement a uniform graduation […]
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08-10-25
Tags:brain Education psychology reading
Really?
Do you really believe we are not born to read? Are we born NOT to read? Are we born to speak, then?
Speaking and reading are both emerging functions from what "we are born with" AND what we have acquired so far. I am no biologist but I suspect most biological […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Psychology, Education) | 0
08-10-11
Tags:Computing Education Of course my lab is not the only ReadingLab around. Xerox owns the domain theReadingLab.com, which actually has some interesting (though outdated) information on some of their projects, for example,
The Reading Lab:Listen Reader
The Listen Reader is a personal interactive reading experience that combines the look and feel of a real book - a […]
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08-10-10
Tags:Education NCLB psy145 Teaching If you followed my last a couple of posts (here, and here) back in May, you are due for an update. Now the interim report is superceded by this final report, which found something positive to report.
By that I don’t mean the finding that RF schools spend more time […]
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08-10-02
Tags:Education Paperville Research Teaching I am quoting the closing paragraph, which I wish I could use to conclude a paper I am writing.
Although storybook reading remains the single most extensively researched aspect of the field of emergent literacy, still much is to be discovered about how exactly children acquire knowledge during this activity. […]
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08-09-25
Tags:Education I am all for individualized instruction. After all, it’s Confucius’ teaching.
The follow paragraphs set up a strong expectation for more individual time between teachers and students. However, right after this, the authors turned to praise Lexia for adaptive testing. I am ok with adaptive testing. But I just hope students indeed received personalized instruction, […]
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08-09-11
Tags:Education Paperville Teaching Andrew Ho argues that the use of percentage of proficient students (PPS) is problematic both statistically and as a policy tool. There […]
Educational Research has an interesting paper on its latest issue:
Ho, A. D. (2008). The Problem With “Proficiency”: Limitations of Statistics and Policy Under No Child Left Behind. Educational Researcher, 37, 351-360.
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08-08-29
Tags:Education parenting reading Teaching
Daniel Akst is a successful writer with at least 3 books in print and numerous articles on NYT, WSJ, and LAT. So when he speaks about parenting and the cure of education, it has a distinct tone of a successful person.
I will refrain from making comments here — […]
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08-08-25
Tags:Education reading Teaching Reading the PISA 2006 report, I was surprised to find no mentioning of USA reading scores in the Reading section. They did participate, but according to
InternationalEd.org | PISA
The PISA has been given every three years since 2000 to fifteen-year-olds in the thirty member countries of the Organisation for Economic […]
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08-07-17
Tags:Computing Education Teaching Watch List AppleInsider | Apple filing takes Podcasts to the next level Technologically this makes a lot of sense, and it will be a hit among Universities. Watch for a iTunesU boom. Ironically, tools like this can eventually kill the lecture as we know it.
A student in my lecture […]
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08-06-13
Tags:Computing Education Watch List Abby Brown at the Rorrey Pines High School MathematiClub created a bunch of Mathematica notebooks for middle/high school math. And for fun. Let’s see if I can get Jessie interested in this.
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