Greg McVerry
Notes May 29, 2015
Resistance to High Stakes Tests Serves the Cause of Equity in Education: A Reply to “We Oppose Anti-Testing Efforts” http://iamaneducator.com/2015/05/05/resistance-to-high-stakes-tests-serves-the-cause-of-equity-in-education-a-reply-to-we-oppose-anti-testing-efforts/
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@ProfessorJVH @JessedHagopian @andreperryedu Paying $$ when most variance out of school and complicated test only explain a little extra
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@ProfessorJVH @JessedHagopian @andreperryedu I understand need of data for policy but need a cost analysis of the extra variance explained
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@JessedHagopian @ProfessorJVH @andreperryedu in one month I saw PARCC, NJASK, ANET, SAT, HPSA, and DRA. Teachers serving only as proctors
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@JessedHagopian @ProfessorJVH @andreperryedu it might be white suburbs revolting but its urban and POC getting crushed by testing
Greg McVerry
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RT @JessedHagopian: .@andreperryedu we need 2 reclaim history of antitesting Black radical intellectuals like WEB Du Bois: http://t.co/N9sj…
Greg McVerry
Notes May 29, 2015
So in month of May I have seen students take PARCC, DRA, ANET, NJASKscience, and folks say we don't over test. So many of these correlate
Greg McVerry
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@TrendCT @EduQuinn @NewHavenVotes Maybe I will check out either if you go Dave but hard to ditch fam when I only get two days a week.
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@AssessWell @PARCCPlace @dgburris @pearson though transparent process of how raters were trained and inter-rater reliability measured is key
Greg McVerry
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@AssessWell @PARCCPlace @dgburris have trained plenty of undergraduates to reach interrater threshold i am @pearson will be fine. Nonissue
Greg McVerry
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@NewHavenVotes don't think I can make it this weekend working on the road so need to put in fam time but would love to do other hackathons
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Photos May 29, 2015
RT @GraceTherriault: “@delta_dc: #edcampusa interactive board https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CsolutIgAr68PUzpMluE3jM04kKXEppiVBDyAvR9pR4/mobilebasic http://t.co/XFS1RBbjFh” follow along with #edcampusa
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@NewHavenVotes @TrendCT Hey #connectedlearning folks did you knoe there is a national civic hack day coming up? @EduQuinn
Greg McVerry
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RT @NewHavenVotes: We love civic hacking! MT @TrendCT: Two great civic hackathons in CT next weekend. New Haven registration here http://t.…
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@AssessWell @dgburris @ilanadspiegel @PARCCPlace @pearson I would hope that will be published in a technical manual. ohh wait there isnt one
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@AssessWell @dgburris @ilanadspiegel @PARCCPlace Aren't most inter-rater calculations basically a correlation, even Cohen's Kappa.
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@JudyArzt @mbfxc @Joe_Mazza Shucks I thought you were there. Glad you are there through Skype.
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@nathan_stevens @TechedUpTeacher @geekyteach @tieandjeans I will be hitting up all these people as I screw up our makerspace. #edcampusa
Greg McVerry
Notes May 29, 2015
It was a good day at Newark Leadership Academy supporting the most at-risk students is such a challenge for urban education
Greg McVerry
Notes May 29, 2015
@KayeHenrickson We are launching a makerspace at @SCSULibrary this summer and a @MozTeach Club to #teachtheweb #edcampusa
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