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We opted for an informed instruction instead of for an embedded or blind one, because we agree with Wenden (1987) in that the latter may not make learners aware of the strategies they are using, and, therefore, decrease the chances of both independent use and development of autonomous learning.
Even so, on many college and university campuses, which are increasing shaped by corporate assumptions and expectations, the centerpiece of higher education, sustained research and informed instruction, is giving way to the assumption that our students must be entertained.
These assessments are designed to provide teachers with information to inform instruction based on an accounting of what their students know and understand.
While using test data arguably can be a good way to inform instruction, using this information for high-stakes hiring and firing decisions is terribly irresponsible for many reasons.
As a result, the representations can be used by educators, including information professionals and teachers, to inform instruction, such as lesson planning, development of assignments, resource location and evaluation, and the use of information, to fully exploit all aspects of the research process.
By "using data to inform instruction," as the Department of Education insists we do, we are sorting lower-achieving students into classes that provide less cultural capital than their already more successful peers receive in their more literary classes and depriving students who viscerally understand the violence and despair in Steinbeck's novels of the opportunity to read them.
By drawing out student ideas using a range of examples during instruction, educators may learn more about what students know in order to inform instruction.
It can produce data to tailor academic plans and inform instruction.
At a time when the demand is that teachers and schools use data to evaluate students and teachers and to inform instruction, the Trustees will make their decision without collecting or evaluating evidence.
After years of working directly with students, we believed we had the expertise and reputation to help districts adopt formative assessment (quizzes and other exercises that inform instruction, rather than evaluate students and educators).
Neither should it be a surprise that the new tests looked like the old tests, and the nature and the scheduling of the tests made it impossible to use data to inform instruction.
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