Most States Part of Groups Winning Federal Grants
By Catherine Gewertz and Erik W. Robelen
Published online September 14, 2010, Education Week
Published in print, September 15, 2010, as U.S. Tests Awaiting Big Shifts
In a move that could reshape academic assessment in nearly every corner of the country, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded $330 million in grants to collaboratives of states to design better ways of measuring student learning....
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http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/09/15/03assess-update.h30.html?tkn=VPSF%2F3FkJfPKtTI3uCcr39T9K4%2B4evM0BDIe&cmp=clp-edweek
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Raising the Bar
September 10, 2010
...A component of the National Security Education Program, housed at the U.S. Department of Defense -- a not-insignificant detail that has been the cause of some controversy – the Language Flagship has an immodest objective: “to change the way Americans learn languages.”
Indeed, the Language Flagship programs represent a significant shift in the model for foreign language education at American universities. Each curriculum is organized around a very clear and ambitious learning outcome: that students graduate at the Superior level on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages scale or with a score of 3 on the Interagency Language Roundtable scale (which spans from 0 to 5)....
For the complete article see http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/09/10/flagship
To raise the bar, it is necessary to assess students' proficiency at benchmark levels. OWL software makes it easy!
...A component of the National Security Education Program, housed at the U.S. Department of Defense -- a not-insignificant detail that has been the cause of some controversy – the Language Flagship has an immodest objective: “to change the way Americans learn languages.”
Indeed, the Language Flagship programs represent a significant shift in the model for foreign language education at American universities. Each curriculum is organized around a very clear and ambitious learning outcome: that students graduate at the Superior level on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages scale or with a score of 3 on the Interagency Language Roundtable scale (which spans from 0 to 5)....
For the complete article see http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/09/10/flagship
To raise the bar, it is necessary to assess students' proficiency at benchmark levels. OWL software makes it easy!
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