Vol. 1 Issue 6

Dear Colleagues:

This issue of EdResources8™ addresses the complex and hotly debated issue of "student assessment." The American voting public (rumored to be placed on the endangered species list) will shortly make their final assessment of the presidential candidates. Opinion polls indicate that this has been no easy task. Why should it be easy? Evaluating a person's worth, output, and reliability is tricky business. There are so many variables to consider and compute. If only there existed an accurate tool such as a simple test (or two) whose results would yield pin point perfect data. But no such singular set of tools exists so we listen, observe, and cobble together an opinion. Evaluating the educational worth and position of our students is subject to the very same difficulties. Single subject tests do indeed have value but that value by definition is narrow. Tools exist, however, that can render a clearer and more in-depth portrait. Check out the links below and please feel free to share your opinions on this very illusive but critical subject.

 

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