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Comment on Minutes with Charlie 1 by KonstantinMiller

KonstantinMiller — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:46:45 +0000

Hi! I like your srticle and I would like very much to read some more information on this issue. Will you post some more?

Comment on Minutes with Charlie vol 2 no 1 by Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:14:22 +0000

Kelly, none of the Minutes with Charlie are copyright protected. They simply consist of some of my thoughts on improving classroom assessment

Comment on Minutes with Charlie vol 2 no 1 by Kelly Brown

Kelly Brown — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:42:39 +0000

I really like your post. Does it copyright protected?

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Comment on Minutes with Charlie 13 by Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:47:22 +0000

Michelle, thanks for visiting our assessment blog.

TEKS stands for Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills. They are the learning standards established by the Texas Education Agency.

“Charlie” would be me. I am the Director of Assessment at Burleson ISD. I send out Minutes with Charlie each week to district principals and assessment team members and a few other folks. It is an effort to initiate dialog on improving classroom assessment in the district.

Comment on Minutes with Charlie 13 by Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:28:51 +0000

In my online search for more information about learning targets, I found your discussion board. I would like to know who “Charlie” is and what TEK stands for. Thanks much.

Comment on Thoughts on Learning Targets by Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:08:33 +0000

Thanks for the comment. The studies I reference in this are three synthesis studies. One was Walberg,(1999) who did a synthesis of 21 studies with an effect size of 0.40 and a percentile gain of 16. Lipsey & Wilson (1993) was a synthesis of 204 studies, effect size of 0.55 and percentile gain of 21. Finally, Wise &Okey (1983) did two separate synthesis. One of 25 studies, effectize of 0.48 and 18 percenitle gain. The other, which I discounted because of the small number of studies and the outlier results was 3 studies, 1.37 effect size and a huge 41 percentile gain. I took liberty to take the 16 21, and 18 percentile gains and grouped them to “somewhere around 20″.

These studies deal with setting “learning objectives” and “learning goals”, whereas I prefer the term “learning targets” in reference to the objective or goal of learning in a particular lesson or unit.

Comment on Thoughts on Learning Targets by Joanie

Joanie — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:30:38 +0000

I’ve been doing some reading on Assessment for Learning approaches, and am very interested in your comment about the research, and the 20 percentile point gain in student performance. Can you provide a specific reference?