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Assessment for High School

Assess­ment, as you can imag­ine, is dif­fer­ent for each stu­dent and each class. An ele­men­tary stu­dent is assessed for mas­tery in dif­fer­ent ways than a high school stu­dent. We assess a student’s mas­tery of wood­work­ing dif­fer­ent­ly than we do his mas­tery of chem­istry. These obser­va­tions leave us no assis­tance in grad­ing our high school level […]

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The Secret to Homeschooling without Stress

I’d love to be able to start this post with a New Year’s res­o­lu­tion goal focused men­tal­i­ty. I’d say some­thing like: The secret to home­school­ing with­out stress is to pray often, describe God’s pur­pose for your fam­i­ly, write down your fam­i­ly’s goals, work hard, and trust God. For which, we have some great tools to

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Does Testing Really Matter Anymore?

Admis­sions tests like the SAT, CLT, and ACT have been his­tor­i­cal­ly required for stu­dents want­i­ng to enter col­lege. Not only did the tests give the col­leges an idea of a stu­den­t’s abil­i­ties, but they also helped col­leges find stu­dents and stu­dents find schol­ar­ships. In the past 10 years, there have been mul­ti­ple stud­ies show­ing the

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Why Test?

If we teach for mas­tery, then why would we both­er to com­plete tests?  This is a valid ques­tion. Espe­cial­ly for those of us that require our stu­dents have a firm grasp on the mate­r­i­al before pro­gress­ing through the course. This is why it takes some of us longer to com­plete course­work than oth­ers. But if

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