Tag: high stakes testing
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Time Is up
We were in the mud of testing. State Testing. The down and dirty that ELA teachers lived and dreaded in the first few weeks of school, after showing tips, sharing tricks, drafting, drawing, hoping, and praying our sophomores could engage and remember— and score high enough to graduate. Their desks were spread apart, facing forward.…
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Building academic success in a test-heavy, AI world
For many years, I took my sophomores to our local university library during their research unit. They entered, awed at the four stories of books available to them as they begin their academic writing careers. By the time they finished their instruction session and research scavenger hunt, they became intimate with databases, the electronic card catalog, academic…
