https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf Ability Tracking en-us 2017-02-09 17:08:42 UTC 2017-03-02 17:00:29 UTC hello@padlet.com tgonzalez8565 https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/152845073 1.What is ability tracking?
2.How does ability tracking affect students?
3. How effective is ability tracking in education?
4. Does ability tracking give every student equal education opportunities? ]]> 2017-02-09 17:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/152845073 tgonzalez8565 https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/152849042 2017-02-09 17:21:04 UTC https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/152849042 tgonzalez8565 https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/153120414 In the article, Research Spotlight on Academic Ability Grouping, published in National Education Association, the author claims that ability tracking can be both motivational and prepares students for work forces later in life. Ability tracking is the act of grouping children together according to their academic talents in the classroom. The article states that ability tracking allows teachers to create lessons and activities tailored to specific groups of learners, therefore targeting each group with the information they ultimately need to succeed. Over all, the author is suggesting the benefits of ability tracking in classrooms. ]]> 2017-02-10 17:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/153120414 tgonzalez8565 https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/153123884 2017-02-10 17:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/153123884 tgonzalez8565 https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/157397221 In the news report, Grouping Students by Ability Regains Favor in Classroom, published in The NY Times on June 9, 2013 by Vivian Yee, she claims that ability tracking has brought back effective learning in classrooms. Yee does by using statistics about students' academic performances and quotes from Tom Loveless (a senior in Governance studies at Brookings Institution). Yee mentions that in 2009, 71% of teachers grouped students according to their reading ability and in 2011, 61% of teachers grouped students according to their math ability. Ultimately, both Yee and Mr. Loveless claim that practicing ability grouping allows teachers and principals to combat diverse levels of ability and achievement with strategies that result in success for each student. ]]> 2017-03-02 16:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/157397221 tgonzalez8565 https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/157397450 2017-03-02 16:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/157397450 tgonzalez8565 https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/157398024 At NMHS, students are given a course catalog. In this catalog, students have a variety of traditional courses to choose to take during the school year. When you refer to pages 8, 14, 18, 21, and 25, you will see that students have the option to choose a class at their preferred academic level(s). You will also notice that there are  courses students will follow until the end of high school. This has a positive effect on students at NMHS because they have the opportunity to start at their highest academic ability and move their way up in course achievements. ]]> 2017-03-02 16:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/157398024 tgonzalez8565 https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/157398345 2017-03-02 16:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/157398345 tgonzalez8565 https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/157398583 In the article, Ability Grouping, Tracking, and How Schools Work, published in Education Next on April 8, 2013 by Tom Loveless, he argues that ability tracking allows educators to differentiate instruction. He goes on to explain that ability tracking was taboo under predominantly qualitative and impressionistic research. Loveless does this by providing sources of previous research and studies on the effectiveness of ability tracking in classrooms. The studies date back all the way to the 1920s and discusses how the use of ability tracking dropped in the 1990s. Ultimately, Loveless claims that ability tracking is the best way for teachers to maximize distributing information properly. ]]> 2017-03-02 16:58:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/157398583 tgonzalez8565 https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/157398843 2017-03-02 16:59:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/157398843 tgonzalez8565 https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/157399129 In the article, The Tracking and Ability Grouping Debate, the author provides the viewpoints of the pros and cons of ability tracking. The author states that when the curriculum is adjusted to correspond with academic ability, student achievements are boosted. One of the arguments is that poor, low-income students are put into groups in which they do not thrive as much as other income students. In the past, tracking was "rigid" and "deterministic." Before, students grouped in certain criteria stayed on that academic level for the rest of their high school experience. The article states that now students are grouped among their math and english proficiency and their transcripts show how the student has personally moved up or down in each subject's hierarchy. Ultimately, the author is encouraging that schools must be granted the autonomy to decide grouping policies. ]]> 2017-03-02 17:00:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tgonzalez8565/1clysb4affmf/wish/157399129