The second session I attended, “Why Rubrics Don’t Work for Me: Reclaiming Subjectivity in writing Assessment” presented by Maja Wilson, was very thought provoking. She began her presentation by talking about the phrase “Objective Assessment” as semantically contradictory. The word objective is related to distance/disinterestedness, as opposed to the word assessment, whose root means “to [...]
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Response to MCTE: Part Two
October 11, 2007Response to MCTE: Part One
October 11, 2007The first session I attended, “Hanging on by your Fingernails until you gain a Toehold: Advice for Future Teachers from New Teachers,” presented by GVSU’s very own Dr. Jill Van Antwerp, dealt with the relatively high incidence of teachers leaving the profession. statistics were a little surprising to me; 40-50% of teachers leave the profession [...]
