Thursday, November 12, 2009

The expert panel

...which gets the morning, includes the following members:

(public speakers are not until 3:30 this afternoon)

Anyone else catching a depressing theme here?

We're hearing first from Jeff Nelhaus, with yes, a PowerPoint presenation


"MCAS has received some modicum of success"


summative, benchmark, and formative assessment


he thinks it's necessary to release half of the items of each summative assessment (which would be like publishing half the MCAS questions each year)


urging online delivery of assessment exams


He's also pushing hard for teacher involvement at all levels of assessment

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