IADA: Starting from Scratch
I suggested in my last post that the word “innovation” does not means the same thing to those of us in the assessment community that it does to the rest of the world. That in itself should not come as a surprise to anyone familiar with our work. Lots of words mean something different to…
IADA and the Comparability Fallacy
The recent Request for Information by the USED related to improving the Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) has produced a spate of posts, letters, articles, etc. related to comparability. Spate is such a lovely onomatopoeic word. And so appropriate to describe the arguments being made about comparability. Spate. It feels like some sort of formal…
We Made it Through the Rain … Again
I know that I’m once again conflating Barry Manilow and Taylor Swift with that title, but if the soggy shoe fits… Perhaps a more appropriate title in anticipation of the impending Speak Now re-release (July 7, pre-order now) would be The Rain Show (Taylor’s Version). For on Saturday evening, my daughter and I attended our…
AITA
It’s a fairly common occurrence for me not to recognize or know how to interpret the various emojis, acronyms, and hashtags I encounter while scrolling through the latest on Taylor Swift, the local sports teams, my favorite #GBBO contestants, and a little assessment and measurement angst – iykyk, right. The most recent case: the letters…
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