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RE: Assessment

2012-02-11T16:36:04Z

I found this nice site for learning theories and didactics in mathematics and science form some one in India,
http://aausmed.wordpress.com/

It contains many useful presentations, for instance one on formative assessment.
It outlines the reasons for having formative assessment:

"- Research revealed that it is the most significant single factor in raising the academic achievement.
- Teachers need to use information about where students are in relation to learning goals in Science inquiry teaching and learning in order to determine subsequent tasks and levels.
- Considerations of equity (gender, language, and culture, “preferred intelligences”), since formative assessment is not dependent on tests, which introduce bias into measures of achievement
- Decreasing the gap in performance among students.
- Improving the communication of goals to students and parents increases students’ productive work.
- Ensuring that decisions are based on carefully interpreted evidence by providing a more formal structure for making judgments about how well students are doing.
- The gap between the students and the teacher reduces and students will take responsibility and commitment to their learning"

Do you think the previous list is complete? For instance, the need of formative assessment in particular in STEM subjects?

RE: Communities of Practice

2012-02-11T16:20:55Z

I am more and more into the communities business thanks to this Spice Community. I found this ppt

http://www.google.com.co/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=ppt%20wenger%20cop&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.intrallect.com%2Findex.php%2Fintrallect%2Fcontent%2Fdownload%2F821%2F3480%2Ffile%2FBuilding%2520Communities%2520Of%2520Practice.ppt&ei=Q5Y2T8PINIqn8QPviOm6Ag&usg=AFQjCNGk0rCz0WBj0czbr5ZTZN0MLyaErQ

itis a looooong link, but get you directly the presentation about building coomunities of practice.
I believe the ideas serve well for the Spice community.
Regards to everybody!

RE: Am I the only one that has to go through a lengthy process?

2012-02-11T16:14:07Z

This is how I do enter the community:

I type

http://spice.eun.org/web/spice/spice-communities

then I go to the Communities link of the upper-right menu

and then I sign in with my openID on the left-down corner

and it workd fine!!

RE: Communities of Practice

2012-02-08T17:16:06Z

Yes, I find that link very interesting, I have read it quickly and now would like to get hold of the rest of the book, it sounds great for communities of teachers also

RE: science and technology

2012-02-08T17:14:23Z

As Valeria comments, the topic of girls and science is quite interesting. One reference that I use a lot as a starting point is this one:

Gender differences in student attitudes toward science: A meta‐analysis of the literature from 1970 to 1991, by M Weinburgh - Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1995 - Wile. It finds (not unexpectedly) that boys have more positive attitudes toward science than
girls. Many other studies have found that, and it is our task as Science teachers to try to change that fact.

RE: science and technology

2012-01-18T22:10:10Z

premysl velek:

Hi all,

here are some projects promoting greater uptake of STEM-related fields by girls:

HELENA: Higher Education Leading to Engineering and scientific careers

SESTEM: Supporting Equality in Science Technology and Mathematics related choices of careers

Thank you, interesting projects!

RE: Communities of Practice

2012-01-18T21:55:26Z

And I have also participated in other Communities of Practice. One of them, a very useful one, was a team of colleagues at a large school, who met regularly to exchange teaching ideas, materials, problems, readings, etc.

RE: POGIL and Spice Webinars

2012-01-18T21:52:50Z

Àgueda Gras-Velázquez:

Hi Andreu,
welcome to the Spice communities. Thanks for your active participation these last few days!

Unfortunately the Spice project ended and no webinars will be organized. But chats will be set up in the framework of the inGenious project (which you can find under Projects in the Scientix portal too!). When inGenious sets the calendar of chats, we'll announce it here as well and you will be able to join.

PS. Als forums de Scientix es pot emprar qualsevol llengua, aixi que no dubtes en emprar el catala com demanaves en un altre post Animem als mestres a comunicar-se en qualsevol llengua i emprar Google translate o semblant per entendre el que diuen els altres!

Hi Àgueda
I find it interesting that fora are supplemented with chats and other types of online activities.
I'll keep looking for the new events of this kind.

RE: Ingredientes for good practices

2012-01-10T10:06:26Z

As you said in the last two entries

"So you mean that is always important to adapt them to you class and the level of your students.
I think GPs have to be open, sharing your experience and writing down problems and tricks"

I should also add that all implementations by another colleague should be documented as well, as much as possible, and in the spirit of the Creative Commons License.
It would be useful that the documentation included grades, sample student data, etc., to orient better future teachers who wish to use it.

Don't you think?

RE: Communities of Practice

2012-01-10T09:47:36Z

I have found a veryu clear presentation by A Galbis, it is in Spanish buy Google works fine. It deals with "RVT una comunidad de practica en educacion superior colombiana" or a Virtual Tutor Net as a communitu of practice in higher education. The link is

http://www.slideshare.net/algalvis50/rvt-una-comunidad-de-practica-en-educacion-superior-colombiana

There are also manuscripts by the same author, you may find them easily with Google

Regards!

Albert

RE: Assessement of skils

2012-01-10T09:43:33Z

Andreu, I would very much like to contsct informally that colleage that you mention, as I am planning to set up an assessment research project. Could you please pass me his or her email?

RE: Assessement of skils

2012-01-08T21:26:18Z

A very interessting paper, Valerie, and it answers also partially the other thread on assessment on informal activities.

This is a quote from the reference you give: "Formative Assessment Is Responsive in That It Can Be Informal. The teachers referred to assessment as both formal and informal. In saying this, they were usually referring to whether the information gathered was recorded and reported in some way or whether it was used in the classroom activities, without a written record being made. Formative assessment tended to be informal, with no written record of the information gathered."