Analytics in Teaching?

Calling out to all the teachers.

Question:  How do they track if teacher A’s methodology to teach math is better than teacher B’s?  Is that even tracked?

Reason why i’m asking this quesiton is: it’ll be cool, if someone tracks the performance of teacher A’s students over the next 3-5 years and see how they do in math compared to teacher B’s students. 

In the example below i assigned random grades to all the students between 60 and 100.

Based on above, teacher B has taught the basics of match (multiplication, division etc.) well to his/her students than teacher A.  Of course, there are several assumptions we are making here about the student. 

Why do this?  If there was a way to look at historical data and see which teacher’s methodology is better, it should be taken as a best practice for all the teachers.

Bing in Gmail?

I was kinda shocked to see Bing in Gmail.  Very nice – i like. 

 

Also, from today onwards you should be seeing Bing Ads on TV – everywhere.  Check out first of many to come TV ads: http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=137044.  Other ones are more funny – wait and see 🙂

As an official launch Space Needle was turned orange yesterday.  When i searched for “bing space needle”, i got good description (which was nice) but upon clicking on it, it took me to images page – i actually wanted to see the image of space needle as orange.

Bing’s everywhere.

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