Ph.D. candidate and research fellow investigating how we understand, assess, and attempt to improve teaching quality.
Rutgers GSE
Joined March 2013
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It's important to remember that knowledge building schools needs to address equity and not just excellence #icls2016
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PSA : don't underestimate the issues in #R's floating point arithmetic:
score = 100+(1/3*50+2/3*50)*3
> score
250
> score < 250
TRUE
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What % of Ss are demonstrating solid academic performance in math & reading? Find out: go.usa.gov/cuWzh
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re: CRPE "suburban schools" report (crpe.org/sites/default/files…) Would help if they understood what "suburb" means: schoolfinance101.wordpress.c…
R script output: "make: gfortran: Command not found"
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO FINALLY DEPRECATE FORTRAN ?!
If your justification for your intervention is based on quantitative changes from Fall to Spring without a control, you are wasting my time.
Including participation invalidates grade meaning, but if teachers can't report it elsewhere it's a *system* problem teapawt.org/ASCD/status/6249159316…
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The NYT editorial captures the effects of Gov. Christie's cancellation of the rail tunnel nytimes.com/2015/07/25/opini…
John Hitchcock is developing interesting methods to use grounded theory to inform the prior probabilities for Bayesian inference. #AERA15
Tony O notes that all literature review is informed by the culture and epistemology of the authors, though it is rarely described #AERA15
Laura Hamilton states you can't just do a validity study and put a tool out there. Validity hinges on whether the use is justified #AERA15
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Drew points out "We've done a really lousy job at continuous improvement because our accountability systems hinge on crappy metrics" #AERA15
Drew Gitomer is presenting our argument that SLOs cannot be considered a measure of student growth! #aera
There is nothing new about poverty [but] that we now have the techniques to get rid of it:The real question is whether we have the will #MLK
human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability:it comes through tireless efforts and persistent work of dedicated individuals #MLK
“This is no time for romantic illusions and empty philosophical debates about freedom. This is a time for action.” #MLK
What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. #MLKDay