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Assessment that Supports and Encourages Learning
Elaine Brouwer, February 2008
Blessing is likely not the descriptor that most of us have attached
to assessment. More
often, the word conjures up images of endless hours of marking
student work, the dreaded report card season, the sometimes-painful
process of justifying the mark to students and parents, and
accusations of grade inflation. Burden is a more likely descriptor.
read on . . .
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What is Quality
Christian Education?
John Van Dyk, February 2008
What
do you think of when you hear the word “quality”? Probably a
well-made product, such as an automobile without built-in
obsolescence, or a skillfully crafted violin capable of producing a
most exquisite sound. Quality, in general, suggests a set of
characteristics that make something rise above the mediocre. If
something is “of quality” it either meets or exceeds a very high
standard. In a sense, all the children in
Lake
Wobegon are “quality children.”
read on . . .
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Curiosity and Wonder Lost in School
Tim Krell, February 2008
Young children are innately curious.
They poke sticks in puddles, chase grasshoppers, and wonder
how things work.
When these
little explorers go to school a different set of discoveries is set
before them by their teachers.
Slowly but surely, they lose the intrinsic wonder for life
and learning, and it is replaced with the extrinsic need to please
the teacher by producing a good assignment and to impress their
parents with an A on a report card. read on . . . |
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