Differentiation and high-stakes testing: An oxymoron?

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The importance of attending to individual learning needs is reviewed and the conflicts that arise when attention to learner needs collides with attention to high stakes tests are discussed. The actions that educators may take to facilitate differentiation when accountability mandates threaten to undermine the personal nature of education are suggested.

United States, Analysis, Educators

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Theory into practice: a matter of transfer

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The transfer of theory into practice is analyzed through theory maps onto curriculum content or by finding ways of applying theory to practice. When teachers identify their teaching ways then the transfer of research into practice is easy.

Usage, Evaluation, Practice, Teachers, Educational reform

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Why closing the research-practice gap is critical to closing student achievement gaps

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The article describes the Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN) research that lead to its development and showed that closing the research-practice gap is important to close gaps in student achievement.

Education, Academic achievement, Minority students

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