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Tag Archives: assessment
assessment extensions – why not?
I have a number of courses with assessments due at the end of Term 3… seems many other courses have similar requirements. This is probably inevitable, given the relationship between Terms/Topics and creating time and space for teachers to mark … Continue reading
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Good to see some student humour…
its is good to see some students have a sense of humour… In a recent assessment that required a degree of self-assessment by the student in response to: Is the report easy to understand? The student wrote “I can understand … Continue reading
more credits, less work
Not for the first time in recent weeks I have had a student say they will not be doing external 3 credit DT portfolio because it’s not worth the effort… “I will do the Understanding Religion optional instead, as it … Continue reading
Sheepish behaviour
I gave one of my Digital Technology classes an assessment. It is project-based and takes a few weeks to do. For the first time ever, half the class interpreted the instructions incorrectly. It turns out one student interpreted the instruction … Continue reading
External assessments for Digital Technologies
I recently reviewed the results for NCEA Digital technologies external assessments Level 1 (Year 11, Form 5). Seems that 50% of students failed the Information Management(IM) assessment, a disproportionately larger number being boys. That is quite a high rate of failure. As it turns … Continue reading
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All quiet on the blog front
All quiet..due to all the NCEA Level 1,2 and 3 assessments to be marked this weekend. I suspect the reason many Senior students get stressed in the last couple of weeks prior to exams is the pure volume of internal … Continue reading
Do students read instructions? Ever?
I have found that students are not so great at reading instructions. In fact, several students missed out on a Merit achievement because they failed to read instructions fully. I therefore devised the following exercise for two classes to complete (slightly different) … Continue reading
Difficulty Analysis by Patrick Bruce (father) 1974
http://tinyurl.com/difficultyanalysis Written in 1974 related to School Cert and UE at the time…
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