Redshirting kindergarteners — holding young students out of kindergarten for a year — is supposed to provide an academic edge, especially for boys. The redshirt will be older, bigger and more mature than classmates. It doesn’t work that way, writes Emily Bazelon on Slate. She cites new research by David Deming of Harvard and [...]
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Redshirting doesn’t work
Published by August 3rd, 2008 in Children, College, Education, Family, Testing and Uncategorized. 19 CommentsHot enough for you yet?
Several folks emailed me this Wall Street Journal Op-Ed about the declining use of the SAT for college admissions. Author Naomi Riley correctly points out the distinction between differential group impact and bias, and deftly summarizes the differing attitudes of the test prep giants Kaplan and the Princeton Review. [...]
Man, is it ever hot here in Philly! And when the weather gets hot, the testing news usually gets cool - there’s rarely a testing-related scandal or uproar when the kids are out of school and away from those dreaded Number 2 pencils. Here’s a roundup of what news there is, though…
Peter Salins of [...]
Howdy, folks! Hope y’all had a great Mother’s Day! The vice president of ACT has a few words of wisdom for you moms out there with middle-school age kids but no college plans.
In Dade and Broward counties (FL), FCAT writing test scores improved, while the results for the state overall look similar to [...]
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ACT, Inc reports that the average performance of Latino students on the ACT increased on multiple components of the exam between 2002 and 2006. One theory is that Latino students are now taking more challenging coursework in preparation for college. A small national average rise is also reported.
The [...]
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First, Seattle teacher Carl Chew was suspended for two weeks without pay for refusing to administer the WASL to his students. Although this article doesn’t make clear exactly what he thought was wrong with the test, he is on record as wanting a “kinder, gentler” way to assess students. [...]
Welcome to this week’s testing roundup! It’s finally spring, which means tests and tulips are all poking their heads above ground. What are schools recommending to help students with the upcoming exams? Breakfast, I can buy. Breathing exercises, yes. But hugs? And more natural lighting?
While elementary school [...]
Welcome back to the weekly testing roundup! For those of you who commented on the previous weeks’ post to ask, “What’s a psychometrician?,” the New York Times has probably the best article about the field to date. I don’t usually think of myself as “obscure, esoteric, and cerebral,” but there you [...]
Well, hi there! This is Kimberly Swygert, and I’ll be providing a roundup of testing links and commentary every weekend here at Joanne Jacob’s blog.
If you’re unfamiliar with my work, I’m a psychometrician and work in the field of educational testing. I was also an edublogger from 2002 - 2006, and you can [...]
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