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How learning in the classroom is changing and why Professor Chris Dede and his team are on a non-crusade to figure out how all of the pieces fit together.
When the bell rings, the eager eighth-grade science students pour out of the building with their handheld computers and gather around their teacher. The teacher explains that the day’s lesson will require them to investigate the causes of a beached whale. As the students exchange quizzical looks, one of them asks, “Are we going on a field trip to the beach?” “No,” the teacher responds, “the beach is coming to us.”
At this suburban Boston middle school, aliens have landed. A team of seventh graders armed with Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and handheld computers wander the school field trying to figure out why aliens are there. However, the path to finding the right answer is getting a bit challenging.
The Partnership for the Assessment of Standards-Based Science (PASS) Science Assessment (PASS) testing program was developed with a grant from the National Science Foundation and is currently administered by WestEd. PASS uses a variety of measures for upper elementary, middle, and high school students to assess science content knowledge as well as higher order thinking and communication skills. Th
The Cornell Critical Thinking Tests are published by Critical Thinking Press and Software. The tests date from 1985, having been developed by two Cornell University professors, Robert Ennis and Jason Millman. Level X is appropriate for assessing the critical thinking abilities of students in grades 4 through 14. It focuses on deduction, credibility, and identification of assumptions. It is a multiple-choice test. Earlier versions of the test focused on specific components of critical thinking.
Published by Robert H. Ennis in 1985, the test is intended for use in grades 7 through college to measure skills such as getting the point, seeing the reason and assumptions, offering reasons, and seeing other possibilities and explanations.
Although accreditation agencies and employers emphasize the value of effective communication, interdisciplinary teamwork skills, project management skills, and ethical acumen, there is little consensus about how to develop such abilities in undergraduate students (ABET, 1999). Our university requires all undergraduates to take two three-credit-hour open-ended project-based interdisciplinary course
They help assess team culture, ect. This may be applicable to assessing team culture in classrooms.
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GoKnow Learning is the premier provider of educational software, curriculum, and professional development for mobile, handheld computers.
How learning in the classroom is changing and why Professor Chris Dede and his team are on a non-crusade to figure out how all of the pieces fit together.
When the bell rings, the eager eighth-grade science students pour out of the building with their handheld computers and gather around their teacher. The teacher explains that the day’s lesson will require them to investigate the causes of a beached whale. As the students exchange quizzical looks, one of them asks, “Are we going on a field trip to the beach?” “No,” the teacher responds, “the beach is coming to us.”
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