Resources for Educators

• Tom Chapin--Not on the Test

  This is a satirical song about a serious problem: the testing pressure has removed music and art from the school because they are “not on the test.”

  “Music, art, drama and sports – these are what kept me involved when I was in school. And these very things, that make a teacher’s (and student’s) job easier and more rewarding, are what’s been cut from curriculums across the country.

  Now we are teaching by rote again – where the test, and only the test, becomes the reason to teach and study."

• Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)

  The Classroom Assessment Techniques — CATs (Angelo and Cross, 1993) within the FLAG are succinct, self-contained, self-instructional, web-based modules that introduce a broadly applicable technique for use in college or university STEM courses. Each CAT has been written by a college or university instructor who currently uses the technique, and has been reviewed by the FLAG Editorial Board for accuracy and consistency with current professional standards of assessment. In most cases, the technique has an extensive history of research to support claims of reliability and validity. The CATs are linked to a set of discipline-specific “tools” that can be downloaded for immediate use. Great resource for high school and college instructors.