Ryan HunterAlyssa Pavlakis’s Updates
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Blackboards new Analytic Features
While I no longer have any classes that meet on Blackboard, when I was an undergraduate student at U of I I had several classes that used Blackboard Learn as the platform where online discussions were had and assignments were turned in. At the time,...More
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Hidden Dangers of Standardized Tests
"The increase of standardized testing arose out No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and the 2009 Race to the Top Initiative" (Morgan, 2016). The reasoning behind this increase in testing was to heighten test scores as we continuously fall behind our fo...More
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SAT: An Intelligence Test?
The SAT, or scholastic aptitude test, is a test that is given every April in high schools across the US in a student's junior year. In the years before it is given students prepare by taking other standardized tests that are supposed to reflect the...More
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Update 4: Plickers
In the modern age of assessment. where technology is becoming ever prevalent, teachers are always looking for better ways to use that technology to give real-time feedback. This is partially because when students have real-time feedback they are abl...More
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EdTPA: The Teacher Assessment
Many times when we think about assessment we gravitate towards thinking about students and their testing. Rarely, however, do we discuss the tests that teachers need to take in order to be teachers. For many years teachers were required to take cont...More
