disjunction
Another example of how my ideas dissonate (a verb I just made up from "dissonance"--hey, "resonate" is a verb...) from those of so many people around me. Here's a quote from Education Week, a leader to an article, presented as though it were a striking--and innovative--insight:
"Educators increasingly are interested in measures designed to improve, not just monitor, learning and teaching."
With the exception of final exams/synthesis papers, every test, quiz, writing assignment, practicar, whatever is designed so that at least part of its purpose is formative. Honestly, in a pedagogical sense, there's not much point to monitoring "learning and teaching" unless your goal is to improve the process, right?
"Educators increasingly are interested in measures designed to improve, not just monitor, learning and teaching."
With the exception of final exams/synthesis papers, every test, quiz, writing assignment, practicar, whatever is designed so that at least part of its purpose is formative. Honestly, in a pedagogical sense, there's not much point to monitoring "learning and teaching" unless your goal is to improve the process, right?