by Taylor Riordan | Oct 13, 2015 | Performance Scoring
This is a re-post of Teri Hendrickson’s popular “Technology for Humans Scoring Humans” originally posted March 19, 2015 Technology is taking standardized testing by storm in the classroom, but how has it made an impact on how our students’ open-ended responses are...
by admin | Jun 25, 2015 | Measurement, Performance Scoring
[Tests] take time, the critics say, put students under pressure and, in the case of standardized testing, crowd out other educational priorities. Henry L. Roediger How Tests Make Us Smarter New York Times, Sunday Review, July 18, 2014 Critics of standardized testing...
by admin | Jun 22, 2015 | Assessment Delivery, Performance Scoring
This is the third in a four part blog series on how to help students pick up information, keep information, and retrieve information. In essence, this series of blogs will define how to help students learn and possibly perform better on tests. Learning is the act of...
by Taylor Riordan | May 26, 2015 | Accountability, Performance Scoring
Being a lifelong Minnesotan instilled in me an immense appreciation and love for the different seasons. That said, I’ve never thought much about how a “change in the weather” might affect classroom performance until the past couple of years when Questar started seeing...
by Taylor Riordan | Mar 19, 2015 | Performance Scoring
Technology is taking standardized testing by storm in the classroom, but how has it made an impact on how our students’ open-ended responses are actually scored? Asking that question of several veteran seasonal staff revealed how technology has changed the face of the...
by admin | Mar 2, 2015 | Performance Scoring
Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series have dealt with some of the criticisms aimed at testing programs. There are certainly many complaints about too much testing, testing being irrelevant, and tests not being difficult enough. However, a lot of the discussion...
