Semantic Deception
Beware of “semantic deception.” Many social planners and education elites use vague words with multiple meanings to describe their policies. The general public thinks a word means one thing, while the...
View ArticleWashington State’s new assessments – school year 2009-2010
Information from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The WASL – Washington Assessment of Student Learning – was re-examined and divided into two assessments: the MSP or Measurement...
View ArticleA Few Testing terms
Testing terms This explains the difference beween “assessments” and “tests”, and the terms “valid” and “reliable” Glossary from EdWatch. Ed Watch, also known as the Maple River Education Coalition, is...
View ArticleWhat are “formative” and “summative” assessments?
Formative assessments are a fancy name for testing, observing, or measuring in some other way what a student has learned– for diagnostic purposes. This is done during the course of instruction so that...
View Article“Paradigm Change: More Magic than Logic”– Explanation of Outcome-Based Education
Paradigm Change: More Magic than Logic by John C. Hillary, is an article from the 1990-91 issue of OUTCOMES, a professional education journal on outcome-based education. Read the article linked from...
View ArticleDon’t Get “Delphied”— If you don’t know what this means you must read this.
Here is an explanation of how groups are manipulated into coming to a predetermined consensus. This could happen at work, or at a government meeting, but it especially happens in education. Read more.
View ArticleWe must think critically about “critical thinking”…
“Critical thinking” is another one of those terms which have been perverted by the education program developers. They know that parents want their children to become critical thinkers, so they use the...
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