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David Thompson, Jeanne Thompson, Larry Braby, Gregg Dimmitt
No full textPhoto of Greg Dimmitt, David Thompson, and other participants on a SOCOTWA river trip on the Colorado River in the 1950s or early 1960
Local experiences, global similarities: Teacher perceptions of the impacts of national testing
No full textSince 2008, Australian schoolchildren in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 have sat a series of tests each May designed to assess their attainment of basic skills in literacy and numeracy. These tests are known as the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). In 2010, individual school NAPLAN data were first published on the MySchool website which enables comparisons to be made between individual schools and statistically like schools across Australia. NAPLAN represents the increased centrality of the federal government in education, particularly in regards to education policy. One effect of this has been a recast emphasis of education as an economic, rather than democratic, good. As Reid (2009) suggests, this recasting of education within national productivity agendas mobilises commonsense discourses of accountability and transparency. These are common articles of faith for many involved in education administration and bureaucracy; more and better data, and holding people to account for that data, must improve education..
Gregg Dimmitt, David Thompson. Taken at Music Temple
No full textPhoto of Greg Dimmitt and David Thompson at Music Temple in Glen Canyon, on a SOCOTWA river trip in the 1950s or early 1960
Gregg Dimmitt, __?__, Gary Milczarek, David Thompson, __?__, __?__, Steve Gibson, Paul Draper. Note waterfalls in background
No full textPhoto of Greg Dimmitt and others in Glen Canyon with post-rain waterfalls in backgound. Taken by David Thompson on a SOCOTWA river trip in the 1950s or early 1960
The life of data: Evolving national testing
No full textTo this point, the collection has provided research-based, empirical accounts of the various and multiple effects of the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) in Australian schooling as a specific example of the global phenomenon of national testing. In this chapter, we want to develop a more theoretical analysis of national testing systems, globalising education policy and the promise of national testing as adaptive, online tests. These future moves claim to provide faster feedback and more useful diagnostic help for teachers. There is a utopian testing dream that one day adaptive, online tests will be responsive in real time providing an integrated personalised testing, pedagogy and intervention for each student. The moves towards these next generation assessments are well advanced, including the work of Pearson’s NextGen Learning and Assessment research group, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) move into assessing affective skills and the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority’s (ACARA) decision to phase in NAPLAN as an online, adaptive test from 2017..
Greg Dimmitt, Randy Dimmitt
No full textPhoto of Greg Dimmitt and Randy Dimmitt, participants on a SOCOTWA river trip on the San Juan River in the 1950s or early 1960
Chris Paulsen, Randy Dimmitt, David Thompson, __?__
No full textPhoto of some of the participants who, along with Greg Dimmitt and David Thompson, were on a SOCOTWA river trip on the San Juan River in the 1950s or early 1960
Russ Reddenbaum, Chris Paulsen, Bob Taggart, David Thompson, Randy Dimmitt, Ron Roser, Mary Ann Brown, __?__, Bob Graham, Rob Roser, Carol Milczarek, Shawna Garrett, Judy Bailey
No full textPhoto of some of the participants who, along with Greg Dimmitt and David Thompson, were on a SOCOTWA river trip on the San Juan River in the 1950s or early 1960
Robert Newman, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Greg Smoak and Greg Thompson, 15 March 2015
No full textTranscript (51 pages) of an interview by Greg Smoak and Gregory Thompson with Robert D. Newman on March 15, 2015, in Salt Lake City, Utah
Greg Thompson speaking.
No full textPhoto shows Greg Thompson speaking at the Utah Ski Archives Annual Banquet held in October of 200
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