The Perfect Test: 32 Characteristics Of Quality Assessment
If we can design anything–not just digitize multiple choice questions, but start from scratch — what would a quality assessment be like?
Author: Terrell Heick
Founder & Director of TeachThought
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John Dewey: ‘We must prepare our students…for their world.’
According to John Dewey, ‘We must prepare our students…for their world.’ by Terry Heick “The world is moving at a tremendous rate. No one knows where. We must prepare our children not for the world of the past, not for our world, but for their world–the world of the future.” That’s not Ken Robinson, but…
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What Is Confirmation Bias?
What is confirmation bias? Broadly speaking, confirmation bias is the tendency of people to overvalue data that supports their own beliefs.
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6 Design Principles Of Connected Learning
What is Connected Learning? An approach to learning that views interests and passions that are developed in a social context as essential.
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How To Create Learning Playlists In A Textbook World
Each learner has access to content and tools to consume content in an order that is within their unique ZPD and cultural schema.
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6 Signs You’re Creating Confident Students
Self-confident and efficacious students are able to persevere in the face of obstacles and challenges.
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Where Students Live Affects What They Need To Know
The value of ‘place’ in learning lies in its context: People seek to know things in order to do them, and these things are done in a ‘place’.
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What It Means To Teach
What does it mean to be a teacher? We start out with the function of a teacher, and then begin to mix in ‘all the rest.’
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Students Should Be Able To Answer 50 Questions Before Graduation
When should I lead and when should I follow? When should I talk and when should I listen–and what is the role of each in understanding?
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20 Questions To Reflect On Your Teaching
How can you reflect on your teaching to grow each semester/year? To make teaching easier? Better? More powerful? More fun? More efficient?
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30 Examples Of Disruption In Your Classroom
Examples of disruption in education range from the demand for eLearning to the soaring cost of college to adaptive learning technology.
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The 6 Stages Of A Teaching Career
We’re diving into the 6 stages of a teaching career: pride, survival, experimentation, disillusionment, rebellion, & ongoing mastery.
