Jul 25th, 2008
Continuing my sniffing through the NAEP Data Explorer, today I “explored” differences in digitally-infused pedagogy by race. One of the items on the background questionnaire of the 8th grade NAEP in 2007 was as follows: “When you are doing math for school or homework, how often do you use these different types of computer programs?” [...]
Jul 24th, 2008
One of my posts from almost four months ago has been resurrected by comments from Tina K. and Amir. In that post, I suggested I’d do some more digging. So, I dug. Some background…these are NAEP data with tables and statistics generated by the NAEP Data Explorer. The NDE is an awesome (free!) tool for [...]
Jul 21st, 2008
If you’ve ever taken a college or graduate level course, surely you’ve completed some kind of summative evaluation form at the end of the semester. At Hofstra University, where I worked for 5 years before this past academic year, we called them CTRs (Course and Teacher Ratings). They consisted of a bunch of Likert scale [...]
Jul 18th, 2008
In response to Scott McLeod’s 140-character book review contest, I submitted an entry that summarized/synthesized two books in less than 140 characters. I wrote: ORGANIZING (EVERYBODY AND/OR EVERYTHING) IS DIFFERENT NOW. That’s it. Put together “Here Comes Everybody” and “Everything is Miscellaneous” and that’s what you get. For those who read the books, those 57 [...]
Jul 17th, 2008
I’ve long had an idea of what kind of school I’d like my child(ren?) to attend, but I’ve had a hard time articulating it. Fortunately, there are plenty of smart and creative bloggers and academicians out there that help me learn and think. In fact, I still can’t articulate everything fully, so you’ll have to [...]