Educational thingamabobs and whatchacallits
I am having an exchange this afternoon with Robert Pondiscio and other friends on Twitter and Facebook over how heinous is the crime of confusing curriculum standards with the taught curriculum. https://twitter.com/rpondiscio/status/249850098467602432 https://twitter.com/shermandorn/status/249862580808609792 https://twitter.com/rpondiscio/status/249868448384053248 https://twitter.com/shermandorn/status/249868786730164224 (Ouch! Standards are…) https://twitter.com/dr_ddennis/status/249869994270289921 https://twitter.com/rpondiscio/status/249870649881931776 In the term as Pondiscio is using it, standards can be a framework for the formal […]
Peer effects: modeling the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day phenomenon
There is a substantial literature on peer effects on achievement, something with important implications for how schools assign students to classes, schools, etc., as well as thinking about how such assignments mediate the judgments we make of school and classroom effectiveness. Most attempts to tackle the problem look at cross-sectional data and assume that the […]