Re: Moose: What did everyone think of the MCT2 test?
Posted by The cup is half full on 9/05/08
I thought that those who had been teaching on the higher levels of
Blooms before were right on target. DOK is a reworking of Blooms.
That's how you have to think about it. I'm sure we did fine.
On 5/25/07, familiar with framework wrote:
> I'm confused by what you are saying. If you look at the item
> specifications and the framework itself then it seems to be very
> specific. Now, I do agree that with the inference you are going to
> have to dig deeper but as for a lot of it, the kids are going to
> have to know specifics.
> What do you plan to read to help you?
> On 5/25/07, Moose wrote:
>> I agree with poster above. It involves a LOT more higher level
>> thinking skills than we've been used to in the past. The kids
> (6th
>> grade -- I did LA and Rdg) were not stumped so much by not knowing
>> the correct rote response as much as having to figure out the how
>> and why of the questions.
>> The why can only be taught by asking the why. We're programmed
> now
>> to teach reading strategies, story elements, etc. from the
>> framework. Now it's all higher-level thinking. I'll be doing a
>> lot of reading this summer!