This article and comments in NYT got me to thinking about the scholarship of teaching and learning. Some of the comments addressed the idea that teaching and learning can be evaluated, not through standardized test scores, but through systematic collection of various kinds of evidence that teaching and learning is happening. I’m not yet convinced that there is a direct cause and effect relationship between teaching and learning that can be measured at the classroom level. Perhaps that’s what I need to explore.
There are some interesting and well thought through comments here. It’s worth a peek.