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Now I'm in the "posting" zone.

I can use a few text features: I can highlight or italicize. I can change the color of the text if I want to. I can crete a link to another web site, too: Chad's blog is right here.

Isn't this a hoot?

And here's a photo of the pumpkins at our church.

Articles I Need to Write

What Happens in English Class Shouldn't STAY in English Class
Using blogs to increase/improve transference of English class skills into other classes across the disciplines. If students blog in English AND in other classes, maybe they'll apply their English class skills to their writing/thinking for other classes. And maybe they'll apply their analytical skills from science class to the way they think about literature. They're supposed to use all their skills in all their classes, but maybe having them blog might encourage them to use those skills.)

The View From Here
How high school and college teachers create different kinds of assignments for their students. The "seamless transition" from high school to college isn't seamless; it's a leap across a huge gulf. Looking at the kinds of assignmetns they face and the way teachers read those assignments offers evidence that HS and college are two different worlds.

Why Reliability Undermines Validity
We say that assessments must be reliable to be valid, but realities beyond the classroom suggest otherwise. Writing is a performance, and critics of ANY performance -- music, dance, drama, painting, sculpture, writing -- tend to disagree when they evaluate the quality of a performance. If they agree to closely -- if they all say the same things -- we suspect collusion, so we doubt the vailidity of their evaluations. Hence, too much reliability (i.e., too much agreement) signals a problem. Yet when we assess student writing, we demand high reliability, the very reliability that we disdain in the "real world." Houston, we have a problem....