As I have stated in my past few blogs, there is a rather positive perception of some methods that we use in our system that have copious amounts of evidence that say they are actually not the most effective way of helping people actually learn. The teachers, students themselves, and parents are all under the […]

Read more "Perception in Education: Where do we go from here?"

As I have stated in my last few blogs, there is an illusion that our system of testing is an effective method of teaching and helping kids learn. This ruse is also carried over to parents. Do not get me wrong: Parents are necessary and an instrumental tool in helping kids learn. They do however […]

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Back when I was a younger (probably more eager) student, I was always under the impression that single tests were the only way to learn well. I think that we have found out in this class that this is not the case. This blog is going to be a little bit different than my last […]

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I thought that I had posted this on Friday but apparently I do not understand how to write a blog yet and press publish haha As I mentioned in my blog last week, teacher’s reliability when marking is called into question for every assignment or test that crosses their desk. As Jesse commented on my […]

Read more "Perception in Education: Students"

In all my years of schooling and I am sure in many of yours, you have written a multitude of exams for differing teachers. As you go up in education level, you have had many different educators marking and grading each one of your assignments and tests. As I was thinking about this fact, a […]

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I ask everyone reading this blog to scroll down to the bottom and watch the video if you have time. The blog should make sense without it but it is still interesting to watch. I chose to do my blog this week on the talk that I gave this week in class. My talk this […]

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Throughout all of our schooling careers, I am certain that everyone has been extremely stressed while writing a test in an allotted amount of time. I, like many others, have accepted the fact that this was just necessary to facilitate learning. I was thinking about this concept as I was thinking about writing a blog […]

Read more "Rushed tests: Are they really the best?"

As a former aspiring teacher and current kinesiology and psychology major, I hold physical education in a very high regard in life and in schools as well. There are a multitude of studies that vouch for physical activity being a mechanism to make people feel better. For example, the runner’s high is often experienced by […]

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How one feels about themselves can have an immense effect on the success of a student in a learning environment. Negative thought about oneself can cause that person to live up to that negative perception and the equal reciprocate of that can be said in a positive nature. This is common knowledge in psychology and […]

Read more "The Link between the Pygmalion Effect and The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy"

As I was searching for a topic for my first blog entry, I decided to scroll through my Facebook newsfeed as a bit of a distraction. I came across an article one of my friends posted about a teacher who was fired from the Edmonton public school district for giving his students zeros. My friend […]

Read more "The False Effectiveness Belief of Testing"