z45\doc\web\2000\10\marzano.txt


I've been on one or two panels with him. I'd say on testing -- and this
is several years ago -- he opposes high stakes, thinks they can be too
limiting but also thinks they can be made to be useful and tied to
useful standards and practices of the sort he devised with the
"Dimensions," which I am not familiar with. Whether he now thinks any
existing state tests are any good I don't know.


Monty Neill


"Gerald W. Bracey" wrote:
>
> Bob Marzano is a researcher at the Mid Continent Regional Lab in Aurora, CO.
> He developed over many years a program called Dimensions of Thinking.  I
> recall a wonderful passage in an Ed. Leadership article where he is standing
> before an audience of fundamentalist Christians and realizes there is
> nothing that he, a former student for the priesthood, can say to convince
> them that his program is not a New Age Religion.
>
> Bob is also the one who studied how long it would take students to learn the
> standards promulgated by the professional organizations and concluded that
> the brightest kids could make it by Age 27.
>
> His most recent book is, "Content Knowledge" (at least, I haven't seen
> anything more recent)/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Judi Hirsch <judih@OUSD.K12.CA.US>
> To: <ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 10:22 AM
> Subject: Re: Robert Marzano
>
> > is he the one who does workshops on improving behavior in the classroom?
> > Judi
> > ----- Original Message -----

> > From: Nancy Creech <Creecher12@AOL.COM>
> > To: <ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 4:01 AM
> > Subject: Robert Marzano
> >
> >
> > > Can anyone tell me anything about him?
> > > Nancy Creech
> > >