It’s just amazing what teachers think. Chris Stolz shares some information that reveals just how out of touch some teachers really are about the concept of rigor:
Hey Ben –
You might want to add this to the research/primers hardlink. It is a blog post in response to Greg Stout’s moronic defartment head who maintained that, because Greg didn’t have enough low marks, he wasn’t teaching rigorously. This post walks people through the issues surrounding norm and criterion referenced grading in language that even math idiots like me can understand.
What grades should kids get? Notes on evaluation for the mathematically-challenged.
Chris