It takes the average reader 3 hours and 23 minutes to read Welcome to Middletown by Robert D. Barr
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Welcome to Middletown is an exciting new approach to professional development. It introduces educators to the sophisticated world of assessment through a unique and fun instructional design. Rather than emphasizing math, statistics, ratios, graphs, and a complex vocabulary, it uses a reality-based role-playing format to engage workshop participants in the real experiences of a school district. Welcome to Middletown make the human issues of school improvement come alive. In structured full or half-day sessions, participants will: Understand the importance of assessment data and learn about the problems associated with using aggregated or composite data and school or district averages that often distort reality. Learn the dangers of decision-making, program evaluation, and strategic planning in the absence of essential data. Learn how data can be manipulated to present very different conclusions, and learn the importance of communicating assessment results effectively. Learn to use disaggregated data to establish goals, monitor progress, and evaluate personnel, programs, and school or district effectiveness. Learn that data must be questioned, analyzed, and interpreted, and learn that different personal philosophies, biases, or agendas can lead to very different conclusions. Gain experience in developing testable goals and objectives. Return to their schools and communities armed with more effective skills for using assessment data to evaluate the effectiveness of their school programs.
Welcome to Middletown by Robert D. Barr is 202 pages long, and a total of 50,904 words.
This makes it 68% the length of the average book. It also has 62% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 38 minutes to read Welcome to Middletown aloud.
Welcome to Middletown is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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