by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Assessment
Multiple choice questions can be used as a quick way to diagnostically assess a student’s recall and understanding for a particular subject. Here are some guidelines for writing effective multiple choice questions to diagnose prior learning of concepts or theory. 1.... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Teaching
Via Faculty Focus The goal of any well-constructed test is to test students’ expertise on a topic and not their test-taking skills. We need to eliminate as many flaws in our questions as we can to “provide a level playing field for testwise and not-so-testwise... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Assessment
Via NPR Close your eyes for a minute and daydream about a world without bubble tests. Education Week recently reported that some Republican Senate aides are doing more than dreaming — they’re drafting a bill that would eliminate the federal mandate on... by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Leadership, Teaching, Uncategorized
via Smartblogs If we always ignore their input and walk away believing our opinions are the only ones that matter, we may find that our audience is gone the next time we need them. Tom Whitby, educator and Edchat founder, once said that students believe that education... by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Assessment, Leadership, Teaching
via SmartBlog on Education This past weekend, I worked with Steve Hargadon of Classroom 2.0 at an educational conference in Jacksonville, Fla. In the car on the way to the conference recently, Steve and I were discussing the “institution” of school and the “system” of...