Nov 25 Annotated Bibliography

 

Here is a PDF version of the annotated bibliography. The link to the live google doc is here

Nov 18 exit slip

 It's nice to be back after practically one month from the previous class. My short practicum went great, and my SA was really progressive and I'm seeing all the things being discussed in class in use. 

My plan is that in the coming Tuesday visits, I will get a chance to casually chat with him about his opinion on standardized exams, university admission,etc. We already had some conversation in that direction, when we had some time to talk in meetings with just us or with other math teachers at the school, and I think I will be able to tell him about my inquiry project and he will be happy to offer some of his insight after working with so many students in math classes.

As for our project, I think our focus is on standardized assessment and the impact on students, and we were able to find some results studying what happens when they are removed and tracking student learning via some metric. We were able to get some good results searching and we will likely continue. One particular article sparked our interest as the author discusses the effect of standardized testing on ELL learners in English speaking countries. We were thinking of giving a test to teachers like in Ontario, maybe with difficult language or even another language like French to give a sense of what it would be like to face these so called fair assessment as a ELL student.