Sternberg's got loads of stuff on and through the Tufts website - as well as news stories through google like this one - http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2006/07/06/tufts_gets_creative_on_admissions/- and I got the attached from a powerpoint he did which is somewhere I can't find any more. The sites are less than transparent, so it's a matter of jiggling. I used this stuff in an Upward Bound program last summer with the rubric that a good answer to one of those questions may actually net $200,000 in tuition, room and board for four years, providing you're not a vegetable and can follow up. It was a tonic.
Had a substantial discussion with his deputy, Linda Jarvin, after that particular teaching cycle, and we framed a variety of other assessment activities that might yet become part of the local high school's curriculum. At the same time that Tufts is genuinely innovating, I'm coaching their state rep - an alumnus and a friend - on protecting or broadening the state standards tests to include something like those Tufts measures. And, at exactly the same time, I'm generating editorials on how the University with a $1.5 billion endowment pays $75,000 in lieu of taxes, while Harvard, at $35billion, pays $7.5 million.... So neither university gets a free ride - hehehe. And the more we press the more we get. In Boston, we lack the equivalent of the wine presses of Napa valley to extract the local product for local residents. On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Taran Rampersad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe Beckmann wrote: > > Robert Sternberg at Tufts uses an accepted and workable definition of > > "anticipating consequences on behalf of others" and has a variety of ways > of > > measuring wisdom and a bunch of other "soft" but really significant > thinking > > processes at http://pace.tufts.edu/ - which may, eventually, trump other > > less interesting testing programs that measure how much "stuff" is in a > > kid's head, or, rather, how many google clicks may not be needed to > recall > > trivia. > > > Do you have a more direct link? It sounds interesting, but I can't see > how you got there from what you were writing... > > > -- > Taran Rampersad > Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.knowprose.com > http://www.your2ndplace.com > > Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/ > > "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo > "The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - > Nikola Tesla > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the word UNSUBSCRIBE in > the body of the message. > -- Joe Beckmann 22 Stone Avenue Somerville, MA 02143 617-625-9369
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