Data Visualization Project Gutenberg AEA 267 - Thinking Skills & Reasoning Introduction This page is designed for busy practitioners trying to design performance assessment tasks that align standards and benchmarks with assessments that really measure what's valued and that incorporate higher order thinking skills. Thinking skills and reasoning processes are considered a critical element to designing purposeful performance assessment tasks, as well as thought-provoking pencil-paper test items by experts such as Jay McTighe, Grant Wiggins, Richard Stiggins, Art Costa and Robert Marzano, to mention but a few. For decades, teachers have been learning about the levels of thinking skills/processes (i.e. Bloom's Taxonomy) and attempting to provide work for their students in such a way that it provides the practice, rehearsal and scrimmage necessary for students to become competent thinkers. What you find provided at this site, are templates reflecting a combination of the work of many great educational leaders, local as well as national. Material Use
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Spelling City - Analogies Welcome to VocabularySpellingCity's introduction to Analogies! Here you can find word lists of analogies, see analogies examples, learn about types of analogies, and compare analogy vs. metaphor. You can also customize sentences to create funny analogies for kids that can be used to play analogy games. You can even generate an analogies worksheet from many of our games! An analogy (dog is to puppy as cat is to kitten, or, as it commonly appears on standardized tests, especially in higher grades: dog : puppy :: cat : kitten) is a comparison between two things that are usually thought to be different from each other, but have some similarities. Analogies are a ubiquitous staple of standardized tests. Types of Analogies include: Different types of analogies are introduced at different levels. Students often confuse analogies with metaphors. Analogies at a glance: Elementary School Analogy Words: big, snow, hand, pencil, apple, cat, happy, milk, ruler, eye
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