background preloader

Data things

Facebook Twitter

‎wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/4/4c/Somerset_Chp2_Different.pdf. ‎weaeducation.typepad.co.uk/files/blackbox-1.pdf. ‎www83.homepage.villanova.edu/richard.jacobs/EDU%208869/Flowers-Carpenter.pdf. ‎weaeducation.typepad.co.uk/files/blackbox-1.pdf. ‎www.wmich.edu/wallacegrant/docs/DIDM.pdf. Educational Leadership:Effective Grading Practices:Grade Inflation: Killing with Kindness? In the 1880s, Harvard University adopted a new approach to evaluating student work that would sweep the United States and become as integral a part of the education landscape as blackboards, number 2 pencils, and yellow buses: the letter grade.

Just one decade later, though, some Harvard professors were already grousing that "in the present practice Grades A and B are sometimes given too readily—Grade A for work of no very high merit, and Grade B for work not far above mediocrity" (Lewis, 2006, p. 115). They fretted that if the outside world knew what kind of "sham work" passed for high marks at the venerable institution, Harvard's degree would be "seriously cheapened" (p. 115). Hand-wringing about grade inflation has continued ever since. The fact that so many people could worry about the same phenomenon for so long makes one wonder whether the concerns are grounded in reality or are merely generational grumblings about the declining standards of youth.

Not Your Parents' A? References. Educators Reference Complete - Document. Reading Passages | Sample Reading Questions: Passage 5. Click on the letter choices to determine if you have the correct answer and for question explanations. An actual ACT Reading Test contains 40 questions to be answered in 35 minutes. DIRECTIONS: There are several passages in this test. Each passage is accompanied by several questions.

After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question and fill in the corresponding oval on your answer document. You may refer to the passages as often as necessary. Passage V LITERARY NARRATIVE: Passage A is adapted from the essay “In Orbit” by Brenda Miller (©2011 by Brenda Miller). Passage A by Brenda Miller July 20, 1969: I’m running in a wide circle at the far end of the cul-de-sac, around and around until I settle in the dust under a thorny bush, but then my name floats into the game, calling me back as dusk 5 descends on the neighborhood. Somehow we’re going to see it.

Passage B by Robert Silverberg 80 I could hardly sleep that night. Questions 1–3 ask about Passage A. Correct! Incorrect. Free Reading Comprehension Practice Test. Questions 1 through 7 refer to the following passage: In the 16th century, an age of great marine and terrestrial exploration, Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail around the world. As a young Portuguese noble, he served the king of Portugal, but he became involved in the quagmire of political intrigue at court and lost the king's favor. After he was dismissed from service by the king of Portugal, he offered to serve the future Emperor Charles V of Spain.

A papal decree of 1493 had assigned all land in the New World west of 50 degrees W longitude to Spain and all the land east of that line to Portugal. One ship deserted while in this passage and returned to Spain, so fewer sailors were privileged to gaze at that first panorama of the Pacific Ocean. Later, Magellan became involved in an insular conflict in the Philippines and was killed in a tribal battle. 1. A. cosmic B. land C. mental D. common man E. 2. A. entanglement B. discussion C. negotiation D. problem E.