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	<title>Synthesizing Education &#187; Assessment</title>
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		<title>Multiple-Choice Tests: Skill or Excuse?</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/05/03/multiple-choice-tests-skill-or-excuse/</link>
		<comments>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/05/03/multiple-choice-tests-skill-or-excuse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 21:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cognitive Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cognitive Roadblocks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s AP exam week (hence the minimal blogging and tweeting I did this weekend), and the kids are bracing themselves for the excruciating 3.5 hour exam on Friday. Fifty-five of those minutes will be spent answering eighty multiple-choice questions that cover American history from pre-Columbian to present day. What interested me today was a discussion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why All Educators Support Standardized Testing (Even if They Don&#8217;t Realize It)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Preparing Students for the Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race to the Top]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[School Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I support standardized testing and so do you even if you don’t know it or want to admit it. What you don’t support is standardized testing in its current form or for that use that has become synonymous with the term. Imagine if standardized testing was not mentioned in the same sentence as the “No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Is An &#8220;80&#8243; Not An &#8220;80&#8243;?: Grades in Schools</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/01/09/when-is-an-80-not-an-80-grades-in-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grade Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inter-District Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lesson Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate talking about grades, grading, and the like. I think it has become sad commentary on our educational system that students are willing to do anything to get a &#8220;good&#8221; grade. I also echo Jerrid Kruse&#8217;s point that we must begin to accept that our assessment&#8217;s are &#8220;merely a judgement&#8221; so that we can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Argument For Why We Need To Banish Mid-terms (&amp; Finals) In K-12 	Education</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/01/05/one-argument-for-why-we-need-to-banish-mid-terms-finals-in-k-12-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Integrative Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interdisciplinary Instruction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mid Terms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transfer of Knowledge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As mid-term time approaches, I can&#8217;t help but contemplate the validity and necessity of mid-terms and finals in K-12 education. I understand that we are preparing them for college mid-terms (not quite), but the reality is that we offering them another point to learn to cram ideas into their heads the week (if we&#8217;re lucky) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Role of &#8220;Transfer&#8221; in Assessment</title>
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		<comments>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2009/12/20/the-role-of-transfer-in-assessment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Integrative Thinking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pattern Seeking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a big believer in judging the quality of instruction and student learning based on the quality of the product created at the time of authentic assessment. In other words, every student should complete the same assessment, but the quality of in-depth thinking required is what separates the good from the…not so good. Teachers [...]]]></description>
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