A Beginning List Of The Best Posts On Gates’ Final MET “Effective Teaching” Report
The Gates Foundation released its Measures of Effective Teaching Project Releases Final Research Reportyesterday, and many of us are still trying to digest it.
Here’s a very beginning list of posts about it, and I’ll be adding more and more (please let me know about ones I’m missing):
Gates Releases Final Report On “Effective Teaching” was my post about it yesterday, which includes many links to articles about it from the mainstream media that give simple summaries.
The 50 million dollar lie is by Gary Rubinstein, and the title summarizes his conclusions.
You might also be interested in The Best Posts On The Gates’ Funded Measures Of Effective Teaching Report, which is a collection of commentaries on their report from a year ago, including my own.
The Best Posts On Students Evaluating Classes (And Teachers) (look near the end of that post) also includes some posts specifically related to the report’s emphasis on using student surveys in the formal teacher evaluation process.
And, since a big conclusion of the report is that Value Added Measurements work, you might want to check outThe Best Resources For Learning About The “Value-Added” Approach Towards Teacher Evaluation.
Coincidentally, an hour after the Gates report was released, Nate Silver made his first public comments on VAM.
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The Best Resources On Grading Practices
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 8 hours ago
This is the last — for now, at least — “The Best…” list in my student assessment series (though, of course, I’ll be adding new resources to each of them on an ongoing basis). Here are the previous posts in … Continue reading →
A Conversation With A Student
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 8 hours ago
Him: “It’s too easy to get an A in this class.” Me: “Why do you say that?” Him: “I have an A. I never get A’s” Me: “Do you do all your work?” Him: “Yes.” Me: “Do you try your … Continue reading →
“Reading Like A Historian” Is Pretty Impressive
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 8 hours ago
Reading Like A Historian is an impressive collection of almost ninety U.S. and World History lessons from The Stanford History Education Group. Here’s how they describe the lessons: The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each … Continue reading →
Here Are The Web Tools My Students Are Using For Their Writing….
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 9 hours ago
A few months ago I published The Best Ways For Advanced ELL’s & Non-ELL’s To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly — REVISED, and, based on various District content filter-related issues, am making some changes to it. Even though I … Continue reading →
Nate Silver’s Impeccable VAM Timing
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 10 hours ago
One hour after The Gates Foundation released their big report that justified the use of Value-Added Measurement to evaluate teachers, Nate Silver was participating in a question/answer session on the Reddit site. Here’s the first question and his answer: QUESTION: … Continue reading →
Gates Releases Final Report On “Effective Teaching”
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 15 hours ago
The Gates Foundation Measures Of Effective Teaching has just released its final report, Measures of Effective Teaching Project Releases Final Research Report. In addition, they have issued two other reports, Ensuring Fair and Reliable Measures of Effective Teaching: Culminating Findings … Continue reading →
The Best Resources For Learning About Performance Assessment
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago
This is the second-to-last in a series of “The Best…” lists related to student assessment. The next, and last, post in the series will related to grading. This post focuses on “performance assessment.” Here’s how Linda Darling-Hammond describes it: For … Continue reading →
Rhee Gives California Ed Policies An “F”; CA “Great Results With Diminishing Resources” Report Comes Out At Same Time
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago
At about the same time Michelle Rhee, resident of our fair city of Sacramento, gave California education policies an “F,” a report based on actual research and focused on how students are doing in the classroom was published with the … Continue reading →
Gates Foundation Set To Release Final Teacher Effectiveness Report On Tuesday — I Wonder Why I Don’t Have A Good Feeling About It?
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago
The Gates Foundation is set to release the final report of its three-year project on teacher effectiveness on Tuesday. You can read about the concerns that I, and many others, had about it’s mid-term report a year ago at The … Continue reading →
Intriguing Gallup Student Poll Results, But Not Something I’d Quote A Lot
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago
Gallup just came out with their annual Gallup Student Poll and, at first glance, it looks pretty depressing. But, that’s only at first glance: Their public announcement it says, “Gallup research strongly suggests that the longer students stay in school, … Continue reading →