They had to produced fifty pounds of pots by the end of the semester.
Quantity vs quality experiment by the ceramic teacher.
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On the final day of class he would tally the number of photos submitted by each student.
One hundred photos would rate an a ninety photos a b eighty photos a c and so on.
All those on the left side of the studio he said would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced all those on the right solely on its quality.
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Most previous studies of the effects of family circumstances on children s performance have been very narrowly focused.
For example assessment data provide students with feedback on how well they are meeting the expectations of their.
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Everyone on the left side of the classroom he explained would be in the quantity group.
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They would be graded solely on the amount of work they produced.
Two sample assessment tasks one to probe students understanding of the natural world and another to probe their ability to inquire.
He turned to the other half.
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Of quantity quality trade offs and as a by product gives new insights into the interaction between families and schools and into variations in school and teacher quality.
To one half he told them they only had to produce one perfect pot by the end of the semester and they would get an a.
02 aug 2008 quantity always trumps quality.
A high school pottery teacher split his class in half.
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An alternative method of avoiding selection bias is to either randomly assign teachers to students as in the tennessee class size experiment or to exploit situations where there is an exogenous change in student assignments to teachers or in teachers to training.
In the vision described by the national science education standards assessment is a primary feedback mechanism in the science education system.