As we moved to Standards Based Reporting, the emphasis on summative feedback increased, whether intentionally or not. Unfortunately that meant our formative feedback tracking became a little inconsistent. So I had the idea (as many teachers do) to have the students self-track and self-report. (more…)
I got my hands on a beautiful dataset of 65,000 entries of standardized tests from 2008-present with 71 columns. We’re talking over 4.5 million data points! Time for my first analysis. (more…)
In the 1980’s and 1990’s, there was a push in the United States to have every student reach algebra by 8th grade. It was a political measure mostly to compete with the results of other countries. However, it seems that experiment has failed and now with the advent of the Common Core, they have explicitly warned against accelerating the progress of learning mathematics. Here’s what it says: (more…)