Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Educational Testing Programs

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(click here for full article) (click here to download a PDF of this article) By Richard Phelps, Ph.D. Economist Education Consumers Consultants Network   Briefing The Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind Act requires annual testing in grades 3-8, so now there is a huge controversy about how much all of that testing will cost. Some studies estimate costs of nearly $1800 per student and others are in the $10 to $25 range. Talk about differences of opinion! … Read More

Bringing Evidence-Driven Progress to Education

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Bringing Evidence-Driven Progress to Education: A Recommended Strategy for the U.S. Department of Education Report of the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy (click here for full article) (Click here to download the PDF of this article) By J. E. Stone, Ed.D. College of Education East Tennessee State University   Briefing Weak research is a chronic problem in education. It has yielded schooling practices founded on little more than pet theories and idealistic causes. The enactment of the federal No … Read More

Do Students Have Too Much Homework?

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(click here for full article) (click here to download the PDF of this article) Part II, Brown Center Report on American Education By The Brown Center on Education Policy The Brookings Institution   Briefing The Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution annually reports on the state of student achievement. Drawing on test scores and surveys, Part II of its 2003 report debunks the popular notion that students are being overwhelmed with homework. To the contrary, … Read More

Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Students’ Motivation to Learn

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(click here for full article) (Click here to download the PDF of this article) By Committee on Increasing High School Students’ Engagement and Motivation to Learn Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2003   Briefing On the surface, the recommendations made by the National Research Council in its December 2003 report, Engaging Schools, seem reasonable enough. The report deals with student motivation and ways that high schools can foster it. One cannot argue with its goals: to create … Read More

References

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References   From Table 1, page 29 of Can Teacher Quality Be Effectively Assessed? By Dan Goldhaber & Emily Anthony Bond, L., Smith, T., Baker, W. K., and Hattie, J. A. (2000). The certification system of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards: A construct and consequential validity study. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Center for Educational Research and Evaluation. Cohen, J. (1969). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences. New York: Academic Press. Cohen, J. (1988). … Read More

Can Teacher Quality Be Effectively Assessed

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Can Teacher Quality Be Effectively Assessed? (click here for full article) (Click here to download the PDF of this article) By Dan Goldhaber University of Washington Center for Reinventing Public Education Emily Anthony Urban Institute   Briefing Teachers pay $2,300 to be assessed by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). They earn pay increases up to $7,500 per year if successful. To date, NBPTS has certified over 30,000 teachers. Despite widespread reports to the contrary, the … Read More

NCTQ 2014 Teacher Prep Review

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How are the nation’s institutions that train tomorrow’s teachers doing? The second edition of NCTQ’s comprehensive Teacher Prep Review has the answers. This edition is one third bigger than last year’s, and features program rankings, so that teacher prep’s consumers can readily know which are the best bets. Click here to read more.

The Free and Happy Student

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“The Free and Happy Student” By B. F. Skinner Phi Delta Kappan, 55(1), pp 13-16, 1973. The natural, logical outcome of the struggle for personal freedom in education is that the teacher should improve his control of the student rather than abandon it. The free school is no school at all. His name is Emile. He was born in the middle of the eighteenth century in the first flush of the modern concern for personal freedom. His father … Read More

Teaching Skill Under Scrutiny

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“Teaching Skill Under Scrutiny”   by W. James Popham Popham, W. J. (1971). Teaching skill under scrutiny. Phi Delta Kappan, 53(1), 599-602. Results of a recently reported series of investigations reveal that experienced teachers may not be significantly more proficient than “people off the street” with respect to accomplishing intended be- havior changes in learners. In three separate replications, groups of experienced teachers were unable to out-perform non teachers in bringing about specified changes in learners. This article … Read More

Engaging Minds

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Motivation and Learning in America’s Public Schools (click here for full article) (Click here to download the PDF of this article) By David A. Goslin, PhD, Past President and CEO of the American Institutes for Research and Former Executive Director of the National Research Council’s Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education Latham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2003   Briefing Rising standards and accountability, by themselves, do little to increase student achievement. The task of acquiring knowledge … Read More

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