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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Entire Course (Ash) For more course
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• EDU 645 Week 1
• Assessment Crisis. Watch the video Linda
  Darling-Hammond on Competing Internationally.
  Then, explain the current crisis in America with
  regards to education and assessment. What do you
  think the cause(s) of this crisis might be? What
  are the possible implications? Explain your
  reasoning. Respond substantively to at least two
  of your peers. Analyze their responses and
  compare and contrast their reasoning with yours.

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 1 Assignment Response to
Intervention (Ash) For more course tutorials
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• Response to Intervention. What is the purpose of
  the response-to-intervention (RTI) approach? What
  are the benefits of this approach? What are the
  challenges? Can you think of any way to overcome
  these challenges? Why is it important to
  intervene early in a students learning
  experience? Your paper should be 4-6 pages
  (excluding title and reference pages), and
  formatted to APA standards

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 1 DQ 1 Assessment Crisis (Ash) For
more course tutorials visit www.edu645.com

• EDU 645 Week 1
• Assessment Crisis. Watch the video Linda
  Darling-Hammond on Competing Internationally.
  Then, explain the current crisis in America with
  regards to education and assessment.

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 1 DQ 2 No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
and High-Stakes Testing (HST) Debate (Ash) For
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• No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and High-Stakes
  Testing (HST) Debate. The effects of the No Child
  Left Behind (NCLB) Act on high-stakes testing
  (HST) has generated controversy amongst
  educators. In this discussion you will briefly
  debate the efficacy of NCLB. Find your assigned
  Debate Group below Debate Grouping (by first
  letter of last name)

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 1 Journal Formative and Summative
Assessment (Ash) For more course tutorials
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• Formative and Summative Assessment. Compare and
  contrast formative and summative assessment. What
  is the purpose of each, as it relates to
  learning? How might an educator use each to
  reflect on his or her teaching strategies?

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 2 Assignment Learning Outcomes
(Ash) For more course tutorials
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• Learning Outcomes. Create a blog using WordPress
  or Blogger. This will act as a portfolio for your
  work in this course, so it is important to make
  it presentable and polished by using a
  professional URL and a consistent theme and
  format throughout the blog. Then, using the
  information in Chapter 6 of your textbook and the
  article Enhancing curriculum and delivery
  linking assessment to learning objectives, write
  at least three measurable learning outcomes for a
  hypothetical unit of study and grade level of
  your choosing.

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 2 DQ 1 Two Classroom Measurement
Problems (Ash) For more course tutorials
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• EDU 645 Week2
• Two Classroom Measurement Problems. What do the
  authors say are the two general problems
  encountered in classroom measurement? How are
  these two problems similar to each other? Explain
  why it is important to surmount these challenges,
  and brainstorm strategies for overcoming them.

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 2 DQ 2 Three-Stage Model of
Classroom Measurement (Ash) For more course
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• Three-Stage Model of Classroom Measurement. What
  do the authors mean in saying any good classroom
  test begins with your objectives
  (KubiszynBorich, 2010)? Doyouagreeordisagreewith
  this statement? Why or why not? Respond to at
  least two of your classmates, offering
  substantive feedback on their interpretation of
  this quote, and providing your thoughts on why
  some teachers (intentionally or unintentionally)
  choose not to use objectives or outcomes.

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 2 Journal Norm-Referenced and
Criterion-Referenced Tests (Ash) For more course
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• Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Referenced Tests.
  Explain the difference between norm-referenced
  and criterion-referenced tests, and recall a time
  when you were asked to take one of each. Do you
  think either test supported your learning? Why or
  why not? If not, explain what you think could
  have helped it support your learning

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 3 Assignment Test and Essay Items
(Ash) For more course tutorials
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• Test and Essay Items. In the portfolio blog you
  created last week, develop at least three test
  items that support your outcomes, and write at
  least one essay item that supports your outcomes.
  These should be included in the same post as your
  outcomes. Then, start a new post in your blog
  that explains your thought process and rationale
  behind the test items and essay item(s).

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 3 DQ 1 Portfolio Assessment
(Ash) For more course tutorials
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• EDU 645 Week3
• Portfolio Assessment. Explain the three
  challenges to validity when using portfolios as
  assessments, and evaluate the benefits they offer
  to the learning experience. Respond to at least
  two of your classmates, offering substantive
  feedback on their evaluation of portfolios as
  learning tools. Do you agree with your
  classmates evaluations? Why or why not?

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 3 DQ 2 Performance/Authentic
Assessments (Ash) For more course tutorials
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• Performance/Authentic Assessments. The authors
  state that there is a temptation to limit the
  scoring criteria to those qualities of
  performance that are easiest to rate rather than
  the most important required for doing an
  effective job (KubiszynBorich, 2010). What do
  they mean by this? Explain the benefits and
  challenges of incorporating performance
  assessments, and evaluate their overall
  effectiveness in the classroom.

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 4 Assignment Analyzing and Improving
a Test Using Statistics (Ash) For more course
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• Analyzing and Improving a Test Using Statistics.
  In the online course, view the results for a
  hypothetical psychology test. Then, create a
  report with the following
• a. The mean score for each question.
• b. The mean score for the entire test.
• c. A graph that represents the scores for each
  question.

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 4 DQ 1 Item Analysis (Ash) For more
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• EDU 645 Week4
• Item Analysis. Explain quantitative item
  analysis and qualitative item analysis. What are
  their benefits to learning and assessment? What
  are the risks to learning and assessment if these
  types of analyses are not administered? Finally,
  provide two examples of imperfect test items for
  your peers to qualitatively analyze.

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 4 DQ 2 Marking (Ash) For more course
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• Marking. Why do the authors propose that marks
  only reflect academic achievement, and not other
  factors like effort or attitude? Could including
  factors like these in the marking data affect
  instructional decisions that need to be made?
  Explain. Respond to at least two of your peers,
  providing feedback on their support for or
  against including other factors in m arks/grades.

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 4 Journal Marks and Marking Systems
Reflection (Ash) For more course tutorials
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• Marks and Marking Systems Reflection. Select one
  of the following prompts pertaining to marks and
  marking systems, for critical reflection
• What do the authors mean when they say that
  its all too tempting to use marks as vehicles
  to reach, or try to reach, other ends? Do you
  agree with their perspective on this?

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 5 Assignment Validity, Reliability,
and Accuracy (Ash) For more course tutorials
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• Validity, Reliability, and Accuracy. Select one
  of the learning outcomes below and draft a
  hypothetical assessment that supports the outcome
  (e.g., multiple choice items, essay items,
  authentic assessment, etc.). Explain how you plan
  to promote validity and reliability in your
  assessment, and how your assessment addresses the
  four categories of sources of error identified in
  the text, thereby promoting accuracy.

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 5 DQ 1 Correlation and Causality
(Ash) For more course tutorials
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• EDU 645 Week5
• Correlation and Causality. According to the
  authors of the textbook, one of the most
  frequent misinterpretations in statistics (and in
  education) is to infer that because two variables
  are correlated with one another, one variable
  causes the other (KubiszynBorich, 2010).

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 5 DQ 2 Validity and Reliability
(Ash) For more course tutorials
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• Validity and Reliability. Using Mindmeister or
  Microsoft Word, create a mind map that represents
  the various types of validity and reliability,
  and explains why they are important in learning
  and assessment. Then, post your mind map to the
  discussion forum, either as an attachment (for
  Word documents) or pasted link (for Mindmeister).
  View your classmates mind maps

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 5 Journal Accuracy and Error
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• EAccuracy and Error. The authors of your
  textbook state that all tests and scores are
  imperfect and are subject to error
  (KubiszynBorich, 2010). What do they mean by
  this? Why is it important to recognize that there
  is no perfect test? Knowing this, what can you
  do to ensure that you obtain the most accurate
  assessment results as possible?

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 6 DQ 1 Standardized Testing
(Ash) For more course tutorials
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• EDU 645 Week6
• Standardized Testing. Watch the video
  Comprehensive Assessment An Overview. Then,
  using the Ashford library, locate one journal
  article related to standardized testing. In the
  discussion forum, summarize the article, and
  identify at least two advantages and two
  disadvantages to standardized testing, utilizing
  both the article and video in your post.

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 6 Final paper (Ash) For more course
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• Final Paper Assessment Plans
• Demonstrate your understanding of the concepts
  covered in this course by developing a plan to
  assess learner performance. This plan should be
  constructed in your portfolio blog, and should
  include the following elements
• Purpose and Learning Outcome Describe the
  purpose of your assessment plan.

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EDU 645 Innovative Educator
EDU 645 Week 6 Summary (Ash) For more course
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• EDU 645 Summary. Review the content in the past
  five weeks of this course and list at least five
  take-away items that you have learned. Identify
  at least one concept that you had a hard time
  understanding at first, or still do not fully
  understand. Review your classmates posts, and
  respond to at least two of them. In each
  response, try to explain the concept that your
  classmate did not or does not understand.

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