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If you start a question with one of these words,             appraise             compare             contrast              criticize             discriminate             judge             justify             support you’re asking questions at the highest level of thinking, Evaluation.  Questions on this level contain elements of all the other types of questions. Evaluation, the sixth and highest level of thinking, requires making judgments when there is no one…

Have you heard the saying, “If you win the morning you…  … win the day.” Is this true for you? Being the first week of the new year, many of us have made resolutions.  Those with a strong will keep them, at least for a while. Maybe they become habits. For the rest of us, the…

Did your student make a year’s growth academically?   If so, how do you know that, and can you prove it?  Decades ago, here in Oregon, the rules for proving academic growth by means of an achievement test were rolled back. Previous to the rule change, an annual achievement test was required at all grade levels. It…

Years ago an investigative reporter presented a story in which some public school teachers had been caught “adjusting” the answers on some of their students’ achievement tests.  In this particular school, bonuses were linked to high classroom scores on end-of-the-year achievement tests.   The temptation to tweak the weaker students’ answer sheets to increase the overall class average…

Did you stay up late last night to see the new year in? I used to when my kids were younger. And while it was fun to play games, eat junk food, and watch movies until after midnight, I’m kind of glad that phase of my life is over. After tranquilizing the dogs, I turned…