Category Archives: Research

Goal Setting for Students

Last month I wrote about the importance of students knowing their learning target. There is research that supports the power of students knowing where they stand today and where they are expected to end up. Last week in the Wall … Continue reading

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MET Project: A Suggestion for Further Research

Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project is an effort sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation aimed at determining ways to measure effective teaching fairly and consistently. The project is collecting oodles of video-taped classroom observations, student surveys, and … Continue reading

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