The last Teaching Breakfast focused on students in groups (collaborative learning) and also on students "evaluating" each others work. I thought the group would be interested in knowing that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit recently ruled that the age-old tradition of pupils' grading their classmates' work violates a federal privacy act. See the web at:
http://www.education-world.com/a_issues/issues126.shtml
for more details. I'm not sure what this ruling means for you, or if it matters at all to you... but I wanted to be sure you were aware of it.
Mr. James B. Greenberg
Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
Milne Library
SUNY College at Oneonta
Oneonta, New York 13820
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phone: 607-436-2701
"Ignorance is curable, stupidity lasts forever"