Educator & ed researcher. Currently focusing on how to develop better tests, for instruction and for democratic oversight of schools. https://xitter.cf/t.co/NAfCcULcyy
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A pile of lumber is not a house.
Cookie dough is not cookies.
An acorn is not an oak tree.
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“Opening the Black Box: Understanding Content Development for Large Scale Standardized Assessment”
Authors: Marjorie Wine, Alexander Hoffman
This training session will lay out a genericized industry standard process used to draft, analyze and iteratively refine items.
ALT Flyer for “Opening the Black Box: Understanding Content Development for Large Scale Standardized Assessment”
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You always have prior information before you do an experiment, because *something* motivated you to do the experiment.
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I can feel my heart sinking into my stomach. I’m walking to the Senate floor right now to give my annual speech remembering the Sandy Hook victims - this weekend marks 12 years since their massacre.
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finding the debate over "moderation" increasingly vague and euphemistic
Democrats moderating doesn't have to mean being more conservative. It can mean being less strategically maximalist in every fight. It can mean reexamining its mistaken understanding of the "Overton window"
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It's terrible politics and precedent but I'm going to be honest and say that the Trump team has been brutally clear they want revenge on their enemies, they are obsessed with Hunter in particular, and that would weigh like hell on me if I were his father and could protect him.
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In general, don’t trust or support climate change activists who oppose nuclear, safe street activists who oppose camera enforcement, education activists who oppose explicit instruction and decoding, or housing affordability activists who oppose housing.
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I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI).
I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right.
Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird.
I open my original photo.
No bra showing.
I put the two photos side by side and I'm like WTF...
Someone edited my photo to unbutton my blouse and reveal a made-up hint of a bra or something else underneath. 🤨
Immediately, I email the conference host.
(FYI he is a great, respectable guy with 5 kids at home.)
He is super apologetic and immediately looks into the issue.
He quickly reports back that the woman running their social media used a cropped square image from their website.
She needed it to be more vertical, so she used an AI expand image tool to make the photo taller.
AI invented the bottom part of the image (in which it believed that women's shirts should be unbuttoned further, with some tension around the buttons, and revealing a little hint of something underneath). 🤯
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FYI the conference organizers were super apologetic and took down all of the content with that photo.
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Being able to understand what's going on at a lower level of abstraction is often a big advantage.
But there are too many levels of abstraction between consumer level AI and the computer science.
Color theory will make you a better painter; quantum mechanics won't.
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Any school building financed with direct taxpayer assistance should be a) owned by those taxpayers, b) controlled/governed by a public body subject to open records/open meetings and c) should be accessible to the taxpaying public (w/considerations for security clearances, etc.).
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In recent commentary in EM:IP, Wine and Hoffman discuss whether “educational measurement” is broader than just psychometrics.
Learn more: doi.org/10.1111/emip.12627
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Yeah. The Southern Baptist Church does not include African-American Baptist in the South.
It’s not about theology or religion. It’s about something else.
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Wishing sociologists had even half the influence on policy as economists. We'd all be better off!
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Eight arrived together.
Elizabeth Eckford, whose family didn’t have a phone and couldn’t be reached, arrived on her own.
On this day in 1957, the Little Rock Nine arrived at Central High School, AR for school, marking a pivotal moment in the fight for educational equity.
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'If we know that our individual errors and fluctuations follow the magic bell-shaped curve exactly, then the resulting estimates are known to have almost all the nice properties that people have been able to think of.' -- John Tukey
This is a man who does not understand the concept of empathy because he does not possess any capacity for empathy.
