"Levels of response" marking scheme (LORMS)

I knew there was a historian in me... Today, I was researching to find out more about social studies assessment in Singapore, in particular, the "levels of response" marking scheme... I found out that we use this to mark social studies essays, but why and how?

Nobody (on Google) seems to know... So I traced it back to its origins... It was designed for GCSE exam for history in the 1980s! Why? It was a way of differentiation by outcome! They wanted a means to use the same question to test students of various abilities and for that to show up through their answers!

Another project...

Writing is so fun...

Just those ideas and seeing how they connect to one another. How they inspire and strengthen, negate and weaken one another...

They drawn upon all your resources, who you are, what you think, what you've read, what you've been through...

I am currently going to write up an article on social studies teacher and high-stakes testing. 

This paper draws upon my current interest in citizenship and social studies education and my past interest in assessment. Also, my experiences with teachers tells me that this is one key issue that constrains them. Also, I have a love-hate relationship with high-stakes examination. I hated it because I felt they couldn't really assess the entirety of what I have learned and forced me to learn to the test but I loved it because they told me where I stood in terms of understanding and I can beat the system. 

I find doing a paper like this or a thesis so much better a way of assessment than tests...

Yes, so I'm bringing together all that I am, to write this paper. Can you imagine how fulfilling that is?

Now, I just need to get down to analyzing the data, which is a massive amount, even though only focusing on four teachers. 

What is a proposal?

Your dissertation proposal is an opportunity for you to present your idea and proposed actions for consideration in a shared decision-making situation. You, with all the integrity at your command, are helping your chairperson and/or doctoral committee to see how you view the situation, how the work you propose fills a need, how it builds on what has been done before, how it will proceed, how pitfalls will be avoided, why pitfalls not avoided are not a serious threat, what the consequences of your efforts are likely to be, and what significance they are likely to have. It is a carefully prepared, enthusiastic, interestingly written, skillful presentation. Your presentation displays your ability to assemble the foregoing materials into an internally consistent chain of reasoning. (p. 5)

Krathwohl, D. R. and Smith, N. L. (2005). How to prepare a dissertation proposal: Suggestions for students in education & the social and behavioral sciences. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.

Intrigued

I don't know about you. But you know what intrigues me? The lack of information. When I want to study something, but I cannot find much about it... It disturbs me very much.

So it's either that that topic is not worth studying about, so no one wants to do it... OR... I have discovered a huge gap in the field!

So here begins my quest to find articles on teachers as civil servants, whether they face any constraints, particularly when teachers teach somewhat controversial subjects like social studies? ;)