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Blog: Breaking Down The Guideposts, Or at least a few
Breaking Down The Guideposts, Or at least a few This is the assessment triangle. It emphasizes the importance of coherence between what is being assessed, as in what aspect of cognition or thinking, how that cognition will be observed, and how resulting data will be interpreted. In a history classroom that emphasizes an understanding of…
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Blog: The Starting Point – The First Thanksgiving
The Starting Point – The First Thanksgiving When beginning to draft the first Canadian History Assessments of Thinking, the most obvious space to explore for inspiration was the Stanford History Education Group’s (now Digital Inquiry Group) Beyond the Bubble Assessments. A collection of “140 easy-to-use assessments that measure students’ historical thinking rather than recall of…
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Blog: What truly is “active” learning?
WHAT IS TRULY “ACTIVE” LEARNING? “Who on earth could be against active, meaningful learning and in favour of passive, meaningless learning?” – Kieren Egan, Getting it Wrong from the Beginning We misuse words. All the time. Several years ago, Grant Wiggins illustrated this when he investigated the conflating of strategies/tactics/skills within literacy education. I, like Grant,…
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