Ideas to Provoke Thinking, Policy and Practice
Practice-Based Inquiry® raises important and interesting implications for improving current policy and practice. Examples follow.
The essays to the right discuss some of these ideas. Click on the title. Go to my blog to comment and continue the discussion.
Tom Wilson
Implications
- Practice-Based Inqiry (PBI) is rigorous enough to enter the mainstream of educational measurement.
- PBI findings add value to the findings generated by testing about how well schools provide teaching and learning.
- The proven strong and positive effect that PBI reports have on schools warrants using PBI as a key ingredient to the process of stimulating effective school change.
- Serving on a Practice-Based Inquiry team makes a powerful contribution to teachers' and principals' professional development. This important benefit contributes dramatically to PBI's cost/benefit ratio.
- Rhode Island's state-wide use of PBI visits provides important lessons in building effective and efficient systems for managing and using the benefits of PBI on a national scale.
- Professional judgment becomes manifest in PBI. Its proves to be a different and productive concept for considering the nature of teaching and learning practice.
- There is considerable potential for using PBI to assess the performance of institutions that provide other professional services than education.
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Current Essays
A Particular Gift: What Ted Sizer Did for Me
With thanks to Eileen Landay and Jonathan Goodman.
“Much Remaining as yet unexplained…”
A Catalpa book review of Grading American Education: Getting Accountability Right by Richard Rothstein, Rebecca Jacobsen and Tamara Wilder, Teachers College Press, 2008.
Transforming American School Accountability with the Professional School Visit
With co-author, Pamela Gray-Bennett, who is (through a grant to Fitchburg, MA, State College) Standards Project Director for AdvancED, the parent organization of NCA CASI and SACS CASI, accrediting 26,000 schools and former Director of the High School Commission of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
At Last, Another Tool to Go With the Hammer!
A brief discussion of the benefits of PBI for school accountability and how it works to provide a new tool to accurately assess school performance.
Continue This Discussion!
From the branches…
Tom Wilson's blog provides a good place for your thoughts to make a difference.
Thoughts, responses to Ideas? Check the blog out, and speak out.
Practice-Based Inquiry® Services
We offer a number of
services so that your organization can benefit from the technology of Practice-Based Inquiry.
These include:
- A pilot visit
- The design
of protocols that greatly
strengthen the validity of your current visiting processes
- The design and
implementation of a large scale accountability and
support system
- Program evaluation
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Practice-Based Inquiry brings professional practice into focus by building
valid conclusions about the quality of actual practice.
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