We have highlighted the ability of an online curriculum to enhance clinical learning by taking advantage of interactive technology and standardizing student experiences in a way that is not place or time dependent.
Because the AP curriculum is standardized, students who are transferred mid-course or mid-high school will be able to transition more easily to the uniform coursework.
Several cartoons criticize standardized student testing as a measure of school accomplishment.
The ACORNS is designed with a sixteen item scoring rubric that standardizes student responses that differ across contextual variables for evolution (e.g., gain vs. loss of traits, plants vs. animals, within vs. between species differences).
(Standardized student test performances have to be part of that equation, but only part. Let principals and school boards do their jobs).
Specifically attention needs to be given to ensuring that assessment is standardized; student support structures and appropriate levels of teaching.
Anchor items allow for comparison of the overall performance levels of students on all test forms and can be used to standardize student performance if there is significant variation among the classrooms taking the tests.
In New York State, where social studies has been virtually abandoned before high school because it goes untested and there is tremendous pressure to prepare students for ELA standardized test, students first learn about the history of the European Holocaust and the systematic extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany in the second semester of 10th grade.
But schools are not standardized because students are not standardized.
The submission workflow has also been standardized, with students submitting the final version of their work to their graduate program coordinators, who then deposit the files in the repository, where the deposit is checked by the repository team before being made publicly available.
