Return-Path: <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id iAL8r2111466; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:53:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:53:02 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <11224EF5.4C2F263B.0004C68E@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: HthKar@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:738] Re: Prt Three ?? Re: more on reading & literacy X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1769 Lines: 8 Sorry but I would be interested in what people think about these documents. Now, if you would be good enough, please turn to page 127 of the core curriculum. You will see a pretty text box on the left hand side which has the stem and the other unnamed bit of the description and a bit from the bottom of the page in the standards but NOT the descriptors. The people who wrote the standards think that the bit in this box IS the standards, which is not what awarding bodies have been told by the national body that regulates the qualifications and certificates linked with this: they regard the bullet points in the standards as being crucial and assessment tools are based on them. If you now look quickly through the core curriculum you will see that there are more bullet points in the curriculum than there are in the standards. This on the whole causes little confusion among tutors since few of them have noticed the discrepancy. But it makes no sense to me. Tutors are taught to plan lessons one bullet point at a time. FUrther, they are encouraged to set learners smart targets based upon these bullet points. This is because setting smart targets is a useful business management technique which has been built into our educational system for some time and which is enshrined as a key skill called improving your own performance. I hope all of you have your own smart targets. Specific, measurable, realistic, achieveable and time-limited. So a smart target for 'judge how much to write and the level of detail to include' would of course be ...er ... well of course I have set numerous smart targets based on this. it is perfectly easy to 'measure'. Words of course are easier. Sentences are too. Write three correct sentences by Easter. Continues
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